What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

Some subreddits will require you to pay to see content.

James Harr, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” introduced by the U.S. Government. He was then banned by Instagram, Tiktok, Paypal, Shopify, and Apple Pay.

Also, did the Chinese government just hack it?

The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Generative A.I is the nuclear bomb of the Information Age. If the Internet doesn’t feel as creative or fun or interesting as you remember it, you’re not alone. The so-called ‘Dead Internet Theory’ explains why. The rise of artificially generated content killed the internet. How did this happen? Why? And… Is it still possible to stop it?

A newly identified smartphone vulnerability can reveal the floor plans of where you are and what you are doing - and it is possible that companies or intelligence agencies are already making use of it

Mozilla generated 86% of its revenue from Google search engine payments.

The surge in online purchases is increasing parcel delivery traffic and emissions. One solution is to take advantage of the trips people are already making to get parcels to their destinations. How could this possibly go wrong?

Fortunately, there are things you can do to help protect yourself and your websites.

Think you can trust every website? One typo and you could be caught in a phishing trap.

Over 20 years of history is gone.

Web browsers are integrating the current AI trend with Large Language Model (LLM) functionality. But there are fundamental issues with it. We address them.

Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.

"Our headlines just sit there on your browser—open tabs, like tombstones in a haunted cemetery of noncommitment."

Millions of poor and rural internet users are facing higher internet bills as of June 1. Here's an updated list of options for how to stay connected for less.

“AI” companies think that we should have to opt-out of data-scraping bots that take our work to train their products. There isn’t even a required no-scraping period between the announcement and when they start. Too late? Tough. Once they have your data, they don’t provide you with a way to have it deleted, even before they’ve processed it for training.

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.