“A dormant, stationary Android phone…communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data communications per hour.”
Some third-party cookies were still present, of course. But there was a decrease in third-party content loaded from social media platforms and from content recommendation widgets.
Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers have instead chosen to block European visitors to their sites.
“We can’t say that Facebook is destroying democracy, but then have our newspapers collaborate with them very, very closely, and rely on them for traffic and distribution,” Karin Pettersson, Schibsted’s new director of public policy, said.
We’re seeing what publishers have decided to implement on their websites as of May 25 — whether they’ve decided to block European Union and European Economic Area-based traffic outright, set up buckets of consent for readers to click through, or done something simpler (or nothing new at all).
“I think we need to be way more humble. As I often say, technology has value but it doesn’t have values. It’s what we do with it. There’s a lot of bullshit in the Valley.”
“The sins are different; but they are still sins, just as apples and oranges are still both fruit. Exposing readers to data vampires is simply wrong on its face, and we need to fix it.”
Schmidt, Christine. "Will news organizations face Facebook-fueled blowback for using third-party tracking on their own sites?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 26 Mar. 2018. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2018, Mar. 26). Will news organizations face Facebook-fueled blowback for using third-party tracking on their own sites?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/will-news-organizations-face-facebook-fueled-blowback-for-using-third-party-tracking-on-their-own-sites/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "Will news organizations face Facebook-fueled blowback for using third-party tracking on their own sites?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 26, 2018. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/will-news-organizations-face-facebook-fueled-blowback-for-using-third-party-tracking-on-their-own-sites/.
Wikipedia
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