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Is this Jeff Bezos's influence? Things I would never have imagined a big old newspaper having their IT team whip up: > The Zeus platform monitors contextual d
by abraae 7y ago
Is this Jeff Bezos's influence?
Things I would never have imagined a big old newspaper having their IT team whip up:
> The Zeus platform monitors contextual data such as what article a person is reading or watching, what position they have scrolled to on a page, what URL they have used to arrive there and what they’re clicking on. The publisher will then match that data to its existing audience data pools, which it has accumulated over the last four years, to create assumptions on what that news user’s consumption intent will be. The technology uses machine learning to decipher the patterns.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoYet another extremely compelling reason to simply disable all javascript (and other active content) by default.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y agoFor me it works like this: the default is disabled. When something doesn't work (actually The Washington Post works great, much better than with JS on), I esitmate the tradeoffs: if it's a really useful website with JS functionality that is actually useful to me (say, with JS doing the math notation rendering or an app I badly need), I enable JS. Otherwise, why bother? JS is like ads used to be: first they put it everywhere, then you get fed up and just switch it off.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoDo you block all JS, including 1st party and inline scripts, or only 3rd party scripts and resources? I've used uBlock Origin to block all 3rd party scripts and frames for a while, but I'm seriously considering going full default-deny all scripts and other active content.
- nathanaldensr 7y agoNot the GP, but I block all scripts by default with NoScript, then selectively enable them, starting with the first-party scripts. I've learned to identify likely tracking domains and have memorized several of the more widespread ones, so over time this technique has proven effective.
- immanentizer 7y agoWhy would you need to memorize them when you can just mark them explicitly untrusted?
- tomatotomato37 7y agoI'd suggest a selective scriprlt blocker like umatrix (my recommendation) or noscript. Do note you will have to invest some time toggling & refreshing on some of the more complex sites until you figure out whatever web of cdns and auxiliary scripts is used to run their stuff
- mywittyname 7y agoI default deny all, then selectively enable scripts to add missing functionality. It can be a pain to get Gawker sites to work, but the vast majority work perfectly after enabling first party scripts and maybe cloudfront.
- JohnFen 7y agoThis is exactly what I've been doing for years!
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