Yahoo Hack Victims Line Up To Get $100 (Or Less) For Historic Hack
It seems like only yesterday that we learned of the historic hack of Yahoo, resulting in the leaked data of more than 500,000 subscribers. Granted, like most hack stories, it didn’t take long before...
View ArticleVerizon Is Undermining Efforts To Archive Yahoo Groups…For No Coherent Reason
Verizon’s often sad efforts to pivot from curmudgeonly old telco to sexy new Millennial advertising giant have not gone as the company had hoped. From the failure of its Go90 streaming service to its...
View ArticleVerizon Again Doubles Down On Yahoo After 6 Years Of Failure
You might recall that Verizon’s attempt to pivot from grumpy old telco to sexy new Millennial ad brand hasn’t been going so well. Oddly, mashing together two failing 90s brands in AOL and Yahoo, and...
View ArticleVerizon's Media Failure Is Complete As Company Eyes AOL/Yahoo Sale
Back in 2014, Verizon decided it wanted to get into the media business. So it launched a website dubbed “Sugarstring.” It didn’t go very well. The website immediately gained attention for the fact...
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Content Moderation Case Study: Tumblr's Approach To Adult Content (2013)
Summary: There are unique challenges in handling adult content on a website, whether it’s an outright ban, selectively allowed, cordoned off under content warnings, or (in some cases) actively...
View ArticleYahoo Reminds Everyone It Still Exists By Formally Announcing Its Exit From...
The bell continues to toll for American tech companies willing to do business with China. Increasing censorship demands have made even the most obliging of platforms reconsider their obligations to...
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Despite What Fox News Tells You, A New Study Did Not ‘Prove’ That Gmail Is...
Some of you may recall that, back in July of 2020, there was one of those interminably long “tech CEO” hearings in front of Congress that appear to serve only to make politicians look foolish, out of...
View ArticleRidiculous Republican Senators Introduce Law To Say Political Emails Can’t Be...
The latest in stupid, unconstitutional, performative, nonsense legislation from Republicans comes from Senator John Thune, and it would break your email spam filters. It’s called the “Political Bias in...
View ArticleBut What Do We Do If Google Is Legitimately Just A Better Search Engine?
I’ve noted my skepticism regarding the antitrust attacks on the current Google antitrust trial regarding how it pays to have its search placed as the default on Safari and other browsers/phones. Again,...
View ArticleError 402: Searching For Ways To Pay For Content
Last week in our Error 402 series on the history of web monetization, we wrote about the earliest forms of web advertising: banner ads. As we noted, this “simple” way of making money seemed to derail...
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