Jan 2020

A team of researchers measured the amount of third parties called as websites include third-party scripts.

Using this concept, we show that including a single third party can lead to subsequent requests from up to eight additional services […]

Peter Bihr builds a solid argument why “online ads on content fund its creation” is a so-called category error, where things that belong to one category are presented as belonging to another (where they don’t belong). The original social […]

January 28 is Data Protection Day, and here are three voices I strongly would like to see heard.

In “10 Reasons Why Online Advertising is Broken”, Karolina Iwańska summarizes the toxicity of behavioural advertising not in one, but ten, points (and stresses that this list is not exhaustive). Starting out with the illusion of consent and […]

I adapted the open source Selfauth server into a Kirby 3 plugin, allowing to log in to IndieAuth-enabled websites using one’s own domain.

To answer the question in the title of this post: yes it’s better to self-host as the performance gains are substantial.

This extensive and thorough analysis of the benefits of self-hosting Google Fonts (but also addressing […]

So much this:

Why are over 500 MB of files needed to write a web app that shows a few lists of things and makes some AJAX requests? (Yes I still call them that. I’ll call them XHR too, even though XML is way passé.)

…not […]