#onlineprivacy — Public Fediverse posts
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ICYMI: Explaining COPPA: COPPA: the 1998 US statute barring online services from collecting personal data from under-13s without verifiable parental consent, ad identifiers included. https://ppc.land/coppa/ #COPPA #Privacy #DataProtection #ChildSafety #OnlinePrivacy
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Why This Blog Will Remain Ad-Free
(Not Every Quiet Place Needs a Billboard)
[email protected]As traffic to Slowmover has begun to grow, I have found myself revisiting a decision I made some time ago: whether to allow advertising on this site.
The temptation is understandable. More readers can mean more ad revenue. Even a modest amount could help offset the cost of maintaining the blog. Once a platform begins to attract attention, it is easy to feel that it should somehow be monetized. We are repeatedly told that attention is an asset, that every page view is an opportunity, and that anything people value should eventually produce income.
But I have decided to keep Slowmover ad-free.
This is not because I believe advertising is always wrong, or because those who use ads on their websites have made a poor choice. Many writers rely on advertising to support their work, and there are legitimate costs involved in publishing online. This is simply the choice that feels most consistent with what I want this particular space to be.
Slowmover was never created to capture attention. It was created to help me, and perhaps you, become more attentive.
I want the words here to have room to breathe. I want readers to be able to sit with a poem, a story, a reflection, or an uncomfortable question without a flashing banner interrupting the moment or an algorithm immediately trying to sell you something related to your fears, desires, habits, or recent searches.
The internet has become extraordinarily skilled at turning every human experience into a transaction.
The internet has become extraordinarily skilled at turning every human experience into a transaction. Grief becomes a market. Loneliness becomes a market. Faith becomes a market. Anger becomes a market. Even our search for peace can become another opportunity for someone to place a product in front of us.
I do not want Slowmover to contribute to that constant pressure.
There is also the question of privacy. Most online advertising is not simply a picture placed beside an article. It is part of a larger system of tracking, profiling, measuring, and predicting human behavior. Readers become data points. Their attention is monitored, categorized, and sold.
That troubles me.
When you visit this blog, I want you to be received as a person, not processed as a consumer. I may never know who you are, what brought you here, or what burden you are carrying. But I can at least choose not to treat your presence as merchandise.
Keeping the site ad-free also protects the character of the work itself.
Advertising can quietly change the way a writer thinks. Once income depends upon traffic, it becomes difficult not to notice which titles attract the most clicks, which subjects generate controversy, and which emotions keep people scrolling. The pressure may be subtle, but it is real. We begin by writing what we believe matters and may slowly find ourselves writing what performs.
I do not want to measure the worth of a reflection by the number of impressions it generates.
Some of the pieces I value most may never be widely read. Some may be too strange, too quiet, too long, too theological, too sorrowful, or too difficult to travel far through social media. That does not make them failures.
Not everything meaningful must be profitable.
Not everything meaningful must be profitable.
Not every gathering place needs a billboard.
Not every quiet moment needs a sponsor.
The name Slowmover itself suggests another pace and another way of being. It resists the demand to move faster, produce more, capture attention, and convert everything into measurable value. Remaining ad-free is one small way of honoring that spirit.
There may still be ways for readers to support the work voluntarily. Books, music, games, projects, and other creations may occasionally be mentioned here. But there is a difference between inviting you to support work you value and allowing your attention to be auctioned to outside companies.
As traffic increases, keeping the site free of advertising may appear to be a missed opportunity.
Perhaps it is.
But I would rather miss an opportunity for revenue than lose the reason the blog exists.
So Slowmover will remain a place without pop-ups, targeted advertisements, sponsored distractions, or products following readers from one page to the next.
Just words.
Images.
Stories.
Questions.
Silence between the sentences.
And whoever happens to arrive for a visit.
#attentionEconomy #commodification #cyberpunk #dataTracking #digitalAdvertising #digitalMinimalism #ethicalBlogging #humanDignity #independentPublishing #internetCulture #mindfulTechnology #monetization #notEverythingMustBeProfitable #onlinePrivacy #readerPrivacy #Slowmover #surveillanceCapitalism #targetedAdvertising #UPCBarcode #WordPressTagsAdFreeBlog -
🔍🎩 Oh, look! A blog post has uncovered the "new" secret of browser fingerprinting, something we've all known about since the dawn of time. But sure, let's panic like it's Y2K again! 😱✨ Apparently, deleting history is as effective as a chocolate teapot when it comes to this "terrifying" tech 🕵️♀️🚫🍪.
https://mysysinfo.com/blog/what-is-browser-fingerprinting #browserfingerprinting #techpanic #privacyissues #onlineprivacy #digitalsecurity #HackerNews #ngated -
Many of us still treat privacy as a personal habit: stronger passwords, cleaner settings, fewer things shared.
But privacy is also about power: who gets to know, classify, predict, influence, and decide what happens next.
The fight for privacy is a fight for rights.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8
#Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #DataRights #DigitalFreedom #CivicRights #TechAndSociety #Surveillance #OnlinePrivacy #CivicIntelligence
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Many of us still treat privacy as a personal habit: stronger passwords, cleaner settings, fewer things shared.
But privacy is also about power: who gets to know, classify, predict, influence, and decide what happens next.
The fight for privacy is a fight for rights.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8
#Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #DataRights #DigitalFreedom #CivicRights #TechAndSociety #Surveillance #OnlinePrivacy #CivicIntelligence
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Many of us still treat privacy as a personal habit: stronger passwords, cleaner settings, fewer things shared.
But privacy is also about power: who gets to know, classify, predict, influence, and decide what happens next.
The fight for privacy is a fight for rights.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8
#Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #DataRights #DigitalFreedom #CivicRights #TechAndSociety #Surveillance #OnlinePrivacy #CivicIntelligence
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Many of us still treat privacy as a personal habit: stronger passwords, cleaner settings, fewer things shared.
But privacy is also about power: who gets to know, classify, predict, influence, and decide what happens next.
The fight for privacy is a fight for rights.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8
#Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #DataRights #DigitalFreedom #CivicRights #TechAndSociety #Surveillance #OnlinePrivacy #CivicIntelligence
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Many of us still treat privacy as a personal habit: stronger passwords, cleaner settings, fewer things shared.
But privacy is also about power: who gets to know, classify, predict, influence, and decide what happens next.
The fight for privacy is a fight for rights.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8
#Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #DataRights #DigitalFreedom #CivicRights #TechAndSociety #Surveillance #OnlinePrivacy #CivicIntelligence
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This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like
You stop thinking of it as surveillance. It becomes “the system.” Just part of how things run. -
"Turns out Google made up an elaborate story about me"
https://bsky.app/profile/bennjordan.bsky.social/post/3lxojrbessk2z
#HackerNews #GoogleStory #Exposé #TechTruth #PersonalNarrative #OnlinePrivacy #SocialMediaDrama
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I am back!!!
And I brought Jacqueline Jayne with me. 🤘✨Make some noise for an awesome episode 🎉
After taking a brief pause, I’m back at full speed with my shows: Redefining #Society & #Technology on ITSPmagazine Podcasts — ready to bring you bold conversations that challenge assumptions and question the role of technology in our lives.
This is the first episode published for the 2025 season, but trust me, many more are already recorded and coming your way soon.
And we’re kicking things off with a big one.
🚨 Australia recently banned social media for kids under 16.
A bold move? Sure. A solution? Well, that’s where the debate begins.In this episode of Redefining Society & Technology, I sit down with my Australian friend Jacqueline Jayne to break it all down. JJ is a cybersecurity and human risk expert, and she’s got some strong thoughts about why prohibition never works.
Let’s face it—does banning something ever actually solve the problem?
We explore the unintended consequences:
⚠️ Will this really protect kids, or just push them to riskier online spaces?
⚠️ What about the communities that rely on #socialmedia for connection and support?
⚠️ Who’s actually responsible for educating kids (and adults) about online safety?Technology moves fast, but knee-jerk policies don’t always keep up. Instead of banning, maybe it’s time we start educating.
📺 Start with the teaser video https://youtu.be/6wKbgTeNux8
📺 Then move on the full length video https://youtu.be/5ZehKjNsavc
🎙️ Or listen to the audio if it is your preferred media https://redefining-society-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/the-great-australian-social-media-ban-fixing-a-broken-system-or-just-breaking-it-more-guest-jacqueline-jayne-jj-a-redefining-society-and-technology-podcast-episode-hosted-by-marco-ciappelli
The importnat thing is that you listen now and join the conversation -- comment below!
Let’s rethink, redefine, and challenge the way we approach technology in society.
Subscribe to the podcast for many more stories about our relationship with technology and what it means in our digital-analog hybrid society.
✨ https://redefiningsocietyandtechnologypodcast.com/
Enjoy!
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