Mozilla stopped advertising across all of Facebook’s businesses because of the company’s data practices. They shifted more of their dollars to offline marketing efforts and content marketing.
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Marko Saric
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On a mission to help you share what you love and get discovered by people who love the same things too.
Happy 25th year, blogging https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/12/blogging-twenty-five-years-old-all-grown-up
It's not difficult to make a faster and less intrusive web. If you're running on WordPress, simply use fewer plugins. Your site loads faster with fewer scripts and third-party connections.
"There is a direct correlation between plugin count and poor performance. Each additional plugin knocks roughly 3.2 points off of Google PageSpeed. Around 1% of small business WordPress sites use 15+ plugins"
https://freshchalk.com/blog/150k-small-business-website-teardown-part-three
My site is now without any cookies, analytics tracking, Google fonts, advertising banners, pop-ups and third-party requests. Pure content. Fast to load. Hosted on an environmentally friendly server too https://markosaric.com/
This one is for all the marketers trying hard to reach the 1% newsletter signup conversion rate by annoying 99% of their visitors.
"Hello! This is my personal web site. It’s not much, but it’s mine. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in 2019 trying to breathe new life into it. At this point, I think just about everyone should have a personal web site of their own. Let me tell you why" https://writing.markchristian.org/2019/04/29/personal-web-sites/
You should have a personal web site
(Originally published in 2019.)Hello! This is my personal web site. It’s not much, but it’s mine. After nearly a decade of just barely existing, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in 2019 trying to breathe new life into it. At this point, I think just about everyone–but especially folks...
RSS is a timeline of sorts, yes, but it runs at a sane speed, and it stays in your control, unlike Facebook or Twitter’s unknowable whims, and it excludes the vast majority of toxic noise that characterizes so much of social media https://gizmodo.com/rss-is-better-than-twitter-1833624929
Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Host it yourself. Distribute it via methods you control. Build your audience deliberately and on your own terms http://alwaysownyourplatform.com/
A fast (11 KB), privacy-focused commenting platform alternative to Disqus https://commento.io/
Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss