Aral Balkan · @aral
39800 followers · 28642 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Privacy Sandbox
#google #chrome #adtech #surveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #privacy #web #BigTech #SiliconValley
#google #chrome #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming #surveillance #capitalism #privacy #web #bigtech #siliconvalley
Aral Balkan · @aral
39527 followers · 27977 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al@autiomaa Correction: Google never was a librarian. To say otherwise is hugely offensive to actual librarians and libraries everywhere.
Google is, and has always been, a venture capital funded surveillance capitalist.
#google #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #vc #ai
#google #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming #siliconvalley #vc #ai
Aral Balkan · @aral
39505 followers · 27954 posts · Server mastodon.ar.alHey, thanks to you and a billion other people whose work we’ve scraped and used for free, we now have a billion dollar company.
Ah, that’s great, so I guess we can scrape your work too and use it for free?
Fuck no! What are you, a communist?
#artificialIntelligence #ai #machineLearning #ml #llm #SiliconValley #extraction #exploitation #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming
#artificialintelligence #ai #machinelearning #ml #llm #siliconvalley #extraction #exploitation #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming
Aral Balkan · @aral
39505 followers · 27954 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al@malwareminigun Google, the company, makes Google, the search engine. Which is why, as much as it is a search engine, it is also a real time bidding engine for people’s attention and a funnel for their data. You can no more separate Google, the company, from Google, the search engine, as you can Google, the search engine, from Google, the auctioneer of people’s attention, and Google, the farmer of people’s data.
#surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming #google
Aral Balkan · @aral
39505 followers · 27954 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al@foxxtrot @TomSwirly @johnbierce @cstross The EU’s Right to Erasure, as well as GDPR, etc., are valuable tools for people to defend themselves against trillion-dollar surveillance capitalists like your employer, Google. I realise that they make things inconvenient when farming the world’s population for their data but that’s a feature, not a bug.
#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #google #privacy #gdpr #humanRights
#surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming #google #privacy #gdpr #humanrights
Aral Balkan · @aral
39445 followers · 27861 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al“Learn privacy” a new course from… surveillance capitalist Google.
These people have no shame.
https://web.dev/learn/privacy/
#google #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #webDotDev #web #dev #privacy #SiliconValley #BigTech #privacyWashing
#google #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming #surveillance #capitalism #webdotdev #web #dev #privacy #siliconvalley #bigtech #privacywashing
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
161 followers · 2662 posts · Server sfba.social
Aral Balkan · @aral
39280 followers · 27653 posts · Server mastodon.ar.alPS. They won’t necessarily put you out of business because they have a better product or anything like that. They will put you out of business because they’ll have a minimum of $5 million to burn to undercut you and starve you out.
#startups #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #vc #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming
#startups #siliconvalley #venturecapital #vc #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming
Aral Balkan · @aral
39280 followers · 27653 posts · Server mastodon.ar.alDo I want it?
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Is it by a startup?
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No.
(A ‘startup’ is not just any new small business. It’s a temporary venture capital funded company that must either fail fast or exit. An exit is where you’re either bought by Big Tech or become Big Tech through an IPO. To understand this better, if you have a sustainable small company, a startup is what will put you out of business.)
#startups #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #vc #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming
#startups #siliconvalley #venturecapital #vc #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming
Aral Balkan · @aral
39278 followers · 27634 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al
@stefanmuelller @breadandcircuses I have the utmost respect for journalism. Adtech isn’t journalism.
#adtech #journalism #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming
Aral Balkan · @aral
39278 followers · 27634 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al
@stefanmuelller Only folks who don’t understand what “pay with your data” means would offer it as an acceptable option in polite company.
Short: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy
Longer: https://small-tech.org/videos/the-camera-panopticon/
#surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming
Aral Balkan · @aral
38851 followers · 27173 posts · Server mastodon.ar.alI don’t know who needs to hear this but stop legitimising Google.
#Google #SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism
#google #siliconvalley #peoplefarming #surveillancecapitalism
Aral Balkan · @aral
38850 followers · 27170 posts · Server mastodon.ar.alPrivacy or a startup, pick one.
(I mean startup in the “the startup with five million in venture capital just destroyed your independent small business which you were erroneously calling a startup” sense of the word.)
#privacy #startups #ventureCapital #VC #funding #SiliconValley #BigTech #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism
#privacy #startups #venturecapital #vc #funding #siliconvalley #bigtech #peoplefarming #surveillancecapitalism
Aral Balkan · @aral
38843 followers · 27165 posts · Server mastodon.ar.alIf you’re developing web sites that only run in Google Chrome, you are not a web developer, you’re a web destroyer.
#google #chrome #WebIntegrityAPI #WebDRM #web #dev #SiliconValley #adtech #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism
#google #chrome #webintegrityapi #webdrm #web #dev #siliconvalley #adtech #peoplefarming #surveillancecapitalism
Oliver :mastodon: :piraten: 🇺🇦 · @oliver
64 followers · 345 posts · Server midgardmates.com@a32 Despite trying to avoid those services as well, I did also encounter that there seems to be a drastic increase of this sh*t on many sites - just topped by the integrated #Google Translator on, for example, https://www.english-heritage.org.uk!
Everything seems rather steering into the wrong direction regarding the Web… #gdpr #dsgvo #peoplefarming
#google #gdpr #dsgvo #peoplefarming
a32 · @a32
248 followers · 662 posts · Server social.tchncs.de
Web sites are integrating this google login crap? How can this be GDPR-compliant?
I'm trying to avoid google and their services as best as I can, and now everyone seems to be integrating this everywhere. (In this example it's vimeo.)
#google #gdpr #peoplefarming #surveillancecapitalism
Aral Balkan · @aral
38613 followers · 26991 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al
Silicon Valley has just one service they sell, available to the highest bidder: exploitation.
It might look like a phone, a laptop, a social network, or even a car but it’s always just the same thing, decorated differently: a mechanism by which to addict you, extract value from you, and exploit you for profit.
#design #decoration #SiliconValley #extractivism #exploitation #PeopleFarming #BigTech #VentureCapital #VC #surveillance #capitalism #humanRights #democracy
#design #decoration #siliconvalley #extractivism #exploitation #peoplefarming #bigtech #venturecapital #vc #surveillance #capitalism #humanrights #democracy
Aral Balkan · @aral
38528 followers · 26936 posts · Server mastodon.ar.alStanford isn’t a university, it’s Silicon Valley’s training department.
It’s where they manufacture the next generation of asshole venture capitalists and startup tech bros to perpetuate surveillance capitalism.
#stanford #education #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming
#stanford #education #siliconvalley #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming
Sin Trenton 🎱 · @sintrenton
59 followers · 941 posts · Server todon.nlIf #Google starts pushing through with their forced 'ad view and track' and Mozilla follows, which browser would be likely to resist, do you think?
Personally, I doubt Brave (Chromium) and not sure about LibreWolf (Firefox).. DuckDuckGo's browser, perhaps?
#SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #adtech #WebEnvironmentIntegrity #DRM #privacy
#Privacy #drm #webenvironmentintegrity #adtech #peoplefarming #surveillancecapitalism #google
Aral Balkan · @aral
38212 followers · 26769 posts · Server mastodon.ar.al“Have you ever stopped to consider that you’re the bad guys?”
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/127
#Google #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism #W3C #PeopleFarming #adtech #WebEnvironmentIntegrity #web #DRM #privacy #standards
#google #siliconvalley #surveillancecapitalism #w3c #peoplefarming #adtech #webenvironmentintegrity #web #drm #privacy #standards