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When countries find themselves in a similar position, they often turn to the world of private finance, and have little choice but to accept punishing terms. But as one gold mine in Senegal illustrates, the exploitation does not start there: sometimes, those finance firms are invested in, and profiting from, the extractive companies that left the country broke in the first place.
Read this story and more, in this week's issue. https://thecontinent.org
Breaking 🥳: Apple has adopted 6 of our 11 recommendations for choice screens and default settings for browsers + fixed two deceptive patterns we discovered.
Huge thanks to the DMA team and EC!
Read about the changes + what still needs to be fixed:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-adopts-6-owa-choice-architecture-recommendations/
You know https://instant.page/ ?
It's that little library that's like *ooooh they are about to click a link, I'll prefetch it so if they do click it it'll load way faster*. It works!
... and that's exactly what Speculation Rules API is ("experimental") https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Speculation_Rules_API
No need for a library if this ends up in all browser. It's pretty rad.
This is so gross. 👎🏻 × ∞
When is Apple going to realize that rent-seeking anywhere and everywhere is not only a bad look, but will get them regulated straight to hell?
(And at this point, it's more than deserved. Bring it on.)
https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon
“Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai
> When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions
Like I've been saying, we don't need the term "slop". Consumers have decided that "AI" in its entirety is bullshit. And, honestly, they’re right.
This is pretty wild — our friends at "Read The Docs" saw file download traffic drop by 75% after blocking AI bots.
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
Am I reading this right? Five _years_ in prison for _planning_ a peaceful if disruptive protest?
Relay
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Open Web Advocacy
Chris Coyier
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Baldur Bjarnason
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Keith J Grant
Stefan Judis