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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe Wounded Walker | Commonweal Magazine2026-06-25T21:14:53+00:00
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https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/your_frustration_is_the_product
robertogrecoI went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.
It is the same story across top publishers today.
This is an absolutely devastating deconstruction of the current web landscape. I implore you to pause here, and read Bose’s entire amply illustrated essay. I’ll wait.
Even websites from publishers who care about quality are doing things on the web that they would never do with their print editions. Bose starts with The New York Times, but also mentions The Guardian, whose web pages are so laden with ads and modals that their default layout, on a mobile device, sometimes leaves just 11 percent of the screen for article content. That’s four lines of article text.
Bose writes:
Viewability and time-on-page are very important metrics these days. Every hostile UX decision originates from this single fact. The longer you’re trapped on the page, the higher the CPM the publisher can charge. Your frustration is the product. No wonder engineers and designers make every UX decision that optimizes for that. And you, the reader, are forced to interact, wait, click, scroll multiple times because of this optimization. Not only is it a step in the wrong direction, it is adversarial by design.
The reader is not respected enough by the software. The publisher is held hostage by incentives from an auction system that not only encourages but also rewards dark patterns.
I disagree only insofar as the reader isn’t respected at all. Part of my ongoing testing of the MacBook Neo is that I’ve been using it in as default a state as possible, only changing default settings, and only adding third-party software, as necessary. So I’ve been browsing the web without content-blocking extensions on the Neo. It’s been a while since I’ve done that for an extended period of time. Most of the advertising-bearing websites I read have gotten so bad that it’s almost beyond parody.
And even with content blockers installed (of late, I’ve been using and enjoying uBlock Origin Lite in Safari), many of these news websites intersperse bullshit like requests to subscribe to their newsletters, or links to other articles on their site — often totally unrelated to the one you’re trying to read — every few paragraphs. And the fucking autoplay videos, jesus. You read two paragraphs and there’s a box that interrupts you. You read another two paragraphs and there’s another interruption. All the way until the end of the article. We’re visiting their website to read a fucking article. If we wanted to watch videos, we’d be on YouTube. It’s like going to a restaurant, ordering a cheeseburger, and they send a marching band to your table to play trumpets right in your ear and squirt you with a water pistol while trying to sell you towels.
No print publication on the planet does this. The print editions of the very same publications — The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker — don’t do anything like this. The print edition of The New Yorker could not possibly be more respectful of both the reader’s attention and the sanctity of the prose they publish. But read an article on their website and you get autoplaying videos interspersed between random paragraphs. And the videos have nothing to do with the article you’re reading. I mean, we should be so lucky if every website were as respectfully designed as The New Yorker’s, but even their website — comparatively speaking, one of the “good ones” — shows only a fraction of the respect for the reader that their print edition does.
Without an ad-blocking content blocker running, one of the most crazy-making design patterns today is repeating the exact same ad within the same article, every few paragraphs. It’s hard to find a single article on Apple News — a sort of ersatz pidgin version of the web — that does not do this. The exact same ad — 6, 7, 8 times within the same article. How many 30-something blonde white women need hearing aids? It’s insane.
People are spending less and less time on the web because websites are becoming worse and worse experiences, but the publishers of websites are almost literally trying to dig their way out of that hole by adding more and more of the reader-hostile shit that is driving people away. The Guardian screenshot Bose captured, where only 11 percent of the entire screen shows text from the article, is the equivalent of a broadcast TV channel that only showed 7 minutes of actual TV content per hour, devoting the other 53 minutes to paid commercials and promotions for other shows on the same channel. Almost no one would watch such a channel. But somehow this strategy is deemed sustainable for websites.
The web is the only medium the world has ever seen where its highest-profile decision makers are people who despise the medium and are trying to drive people away from it. As Bose notes, “A lot of websites actively interfere the reader from accessing them by pestering them with their ‘apps’ these days. I don’t know where this fascination with getting everyone to download your app comes from.” It comes from people who literally do not understand, and do not enjoy, the web, but yet find themselves running large websites.
The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are trying to hit icebergs."]]>internet web online reading bloat 2026 ads advertising ux johngruber shubhambose enshittification nytimes theguardian applenews autoplay theatlantic rsj thenewyorker ublockorigin adblockers attention webdesignhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b17df6cba14/Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power - Anil Dash2026-03-03T23:27:51+00:00
https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/28/apple-video-podcast-power/
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https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/literacy-culture-evolution-scialabba-knowledge-george
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https://bayareacurrent.com/tech-billboard-decoder-the-great-tech-vibe-shift/
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https://overthefield.substack.com/p/the-predator-sees-all
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https://www.leahreich.com/the-global-fraud-economy/
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/how-the-web-was-lost-internet-this-is-for-everyone/
robertogrecoThe internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved? They’re all turning into piles of shit, all at once. Worse, the digital is merging with the physical, which means that the same forces that are wrecking our platforms are also wrecking our homes and our cars, the places where we work and shop. The world is increasingly made up of computers we put our bodies into, and computers we put into our bodies. And these computers suck.
What Doctorow means is that the bright, shiny objects of the Internet have become spy tools, surreptitiously collecting information about us—our habits, our desires, our health, our political inclinations—and using it to manipulate our behavior. The platforms that appear to serve users hungry for information—and did serve them, at first—now go to extreme lengths to seize attention. Algorithms designed to maximize “engagement” amplify anger and sensationalism at the expense of truth.
Novel platforms emerged and swelled in overlapping sequence: the browser, the search engine (Google), the social network (Facebook, Twitter), the megastore (Amazon). Before all of these, before any dream of the Internet, the proto-platform was the Bell System—the American telephone network, a monopoly operated by the world’s most powerful corporation. The Bell System left nothing to chance and nothing to the user. It owned the wires and the telephones. Customers were captive, and so were the ostensible regulators, for most of a century.
After the breakup of the telephone monopoly, the new platforms could not lock in users so absolutely. They had to resort to cunning. Case number one: Facebook, which Doctorow calls “a service that Mark Zuckerberg started in his dorm room so that he and his creepy pals could nonconsensually rate the fuckability of their fellow Harvard undergrads.”
He’s not wrong. But users loved it. They exchanged personal news and relationship statuses and music preferences and pictures. Zuckerberg’s was not the first social media service; oldsters may vaguely recall Friendster and then MySpace, which by 2006 had been snapped up by Rupert Murdoch. As Facebook put it in a marketing pitch:
Has it occurred to you that MySpace is owned by an evil, crapulent, senescent Australian billionaire named Rupert Murdoch, and he spies on you with every hour that God sends?
Come to Facebook, where we will never spy on you.
Now, of course, spying on users is the essence of Zuckerberg’s business model. This is what the Harvard business professor Shoshana Zuboff has called surveillance capitalism, a project of behavior control, commodifying individuals’ personal experience and private information to target them with advertising and propaganda.
In Walsh’s terms, creativity has been replaced by extraction. “Creators are back in the age of the patron,” she writes. Customers become unwitting captives: they have friends and followers, but only by sufferance of the platform; if they want to switch to a different service, they can’t take their network with them.
The ironies are abundant, and chief among them is that the early Internet thrived on cutting out the middleman. If people complained about the markup charged by their brick-and-mortar bookstore, the upstart Amazon promised to eliminate the overhead of shelf space, store rents, and clerk salaries and deliver the merchandise straight to their front door. Or straight to the eyeballs—cut out the printers and paper mills, too. The buzzword was disintermediation. Another master of disintermediation was eBay, connecting buyers and sellers directly, cutting out the antique dealers and flea markets. Napster did the same for music lovers, cutting out the record stores; it began enabling song downloads in 1999, operated for a year and a half, claimed 80 million users, and devastated the recording industry.
And now? The platforms are middlemen par excellence. They squeeze buyers and sellers alike. Music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music say they aim to connect artists with their fans, helping music lovers find the music they love and helping creators find a livelihood; instead they use their centralized control to pay artists less than ever. Google and Facebook, dominating the global advertising market, have colluded to raise prices for advertisers while minimizing the revenue to websites that publish the ads."
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"Enshittification represents the fulfillment of a vision laid out by Andreessen in a famous 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, still featured on his company website. “Software is eating the world,” he declared proudly. By then he was a major investor in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, and many others. What he meant by “eating the world” was that Amazon had destroyed Borders, Netflix had destroyed Blockbuster, music-streaming giants were destroying record labels, and Google was “using software to eat the retail marketing industry.” He considered this to be good news.
But software doesn’t eat anything. Tech companies do, when they gain the power to use the levers of the information economy to consolidate and dominate."
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"Reality has surely disappointed Doctorow yet again. Trump replaced Khan with a commissioner who is reversing her agenda. The antitrust case against Google ended in September with a whimper: the Biden administration had asked for a forced separation of the company’s browser business from its search business, but Judge Amit P. Mehta, having already declared Google a monopolist, backed down. “Here the court is asked to gaze into a crystal ball and look to the future,” he wrote. “Not exactly a judge’s forte.” And Trump has made his own kind of peace with the tech oligarchs: demanding personal obeisance and dispensing favors. Musk and Andreessen became full-throated and deep-pocketed supporters; Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos donated to his inaugural festivities; Google and Apple executives have come to the White House as supplicants, bearing flattery and gifts. Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta all joined the list of donors to Trump’s vanity ballroom project in the now-demolished East Wing of the White House.
We amateurs are going to need a work-around."]]>jamesgleick interner web online history enshittification joannawalsh timeberners-lee corydoctorow policy stephenwitt idealism egalitarianism platforms billionaires power control centralization decentralization johnmarkoff corporations corporatism ip intellectualproperty 2025 petersteiner google meta facebook amazon consolidation monopolies marcandreessen siliconvalley freedom democracy technocracy browsers twitter markzuckerberg myspace rupertmurdoch data privacy disintermediation spotify applemusic music streaming apple via:javierarbona economics economy marketing ads advertising netflix fediverse mastodon jdvance donaldtrump linakhan amateurs amateurism algorithms propaganda napster friednsterhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:72c9eef1b7b1/The Ad Campaign for Capitalism - The American Prospect2025-11-18T03:34:53+00:00
https://prospect.org/2025/10/13/lewis-powell-memo-nader-chamber-commerce-master-plan/
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https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uLpICsNTV4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc
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https://psyche.co/ideas/how-luxury-brands-engineer-desire-with-behavioural-economics
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/what-do-commercials-about-ai-really-promise
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https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/social-media-can-support-or-undermine-democracy-it-comes-down-to-how-its-designed/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_F19hYoaE
robertogrecoJoin us for a virtual book talk with author Cory Doctorow about THE INTERNET CON, the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.
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About The Internet Con
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.
The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it's a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships.
We can - we must - dismantle the tech platforms. In The Internet Con, Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.
Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.
Check out all of the Future Knowledge episodes at https://archive.org/details/future-knowledge "]]>corydoctorow internet web online history platforms myspace facebook meta google 2023 drm internetarchive collectiveaction interoperability enshittification surveillance ads advertising siliconvalley monopolies publishing media intermediation disintermediation commodification relationships socialmedia extraction journalism walledgardens profits uber bigtech policy regulation antitrust ronaldreagan reaganism jimmycarter amazon law legal linakhan tracking napster deregulation music miltonfriedman libertarianism margaretthatcher economics capitalism newdeal crisis crises neoliberalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f1da74d8585/Can You Believe Your Own Eyes? Not With A.I. | Op-Docs - YouTube2025-06-25T02:14:57+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf3wEg9tsCY
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robertogrecoThere will be no sudden redesign, no flood of ads, no pivot to chase a userbase inscrutable to us. It might go away at some point, but that will be our decision. What is this feeling? Independence? Security? Sovereignty?
P.S. Ted’s recent newsletter style is a key example of 2020s ventilated prose, an unmissable textual trend. I understand and appreciate writers using the tools that work; at the same time, man, is this really the end of the paragraph? The twilight of the compound thought? Do not go quietly, etc!"]]>robinsloan platforms substack internet web online openweb 2025 tedgioia socenshittification ialmedia ads advertising attention algorithms newsletters twitterhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f7e2d8c8eab/The Truth About Burning Waymos - YouTube2025-06-13T18:08:57+00:00
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https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism
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https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-new-rules-of-media
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https://www.scopeofwork.net/anything-that-lets-me-see-more-of-the-world/
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https://dougald.substack.com/p/what-art-is-not
robertogrecoWhen artists are brought into projects about climate change, the assumption tends to be that they will make something that helps ‘deliver the message’. A poem, a play, a film, a pop song that will wake people up to the depth of the trouble we are in, that will stir people to action or bring about ‘behaviour change’. If this invitation is accepted, the result is usually a failure – both as art and as message delivery – because this is not how art works. As the Swedish playwright Anders Duus put it to me, ‘Our job is to complicate matters.’ Not to be difficult for the sake of it but to do justice to the strangeness and the messiness of life in a world like this, and to create the kind of space in which stories come alive. None of which is helpful if what you are looking for is a tool to get across a message. Art is not a cheap alternative to an advertising agency or a sophisticated extension of the communications department, and the urgency of the message doesn’t change this.
This doesn’t mean art can go on as if it doesn’t know, ignoring the smoke that drifts through the open window of the studio, pretending that the world is not on fire. In the conversations that led to the Dark Mountain manifesto, I remember a sense that those who came after us would look back on the art being made in our time with disbelief: how could we have made this stuff, given what we already knew about the trouble we were in?
There’s no single answer to the question of what art should do under the shadow of climate change – and besides, anything that’s worth the name of art is allergic to words like ‘should’. It takes a subtler kind of dialogue, an indirect approach, to stumble on the places where the work of art comes alive. Still, over the years, I began to gather a list of possibilities worth exploring. If our job is to complicate matters, then we could start with whatever seems to be getting taken for granted. Take this urge to get the message across. Is it really the case that people don’t have enough information about climate change? Or is it that we struggle to make sense of what this information means, to fit it into the frames we use to make sense of our lives? Art is not an information technology but it does have a knack of drawing our attention to these frames, bringing them into question, suggesting the possibility of other framings. In its attention to whatever is missing or taken for granted, art can lead us upstream.
This is as far as I take it in the book, but in an earlier essay I offered an unfinished list of the roles that art might play, picking up from the same line of thought:
1. Art can hold a space in which we move from the arm’s-length knowledge of facts, figures and projections, to the kind of knowledge that we let inside us, taking the risk that it may change us.
2. Art can give us just enough beauty to stay with the darkness, rather than flee or shut down.
3. Like the bronze shield given to Perseus by Athena, art and its indirect ways of knowing can allow us to approach realities which, if looked at directly, turn something inside us to stone.
4. Art can call us back from strategic calculations about which message will play best with which target group, insisting on the tricky need for honesty – there’s a line I kept coming back to, from the playwright Mark Ravenhill, that your responsibility when you walk on stage is to be ‘the most truthful person in the room’.
5. Art can teach us to live with uncertainty, to let go of our dreams of control.
6. Art can hold open a space of ambiguity, refusing the binary choices with which we are often presented – not least, the choice between forced optimism and simple despair.
I hope that At Work in the Ruins itself plays some of these roles for readers, in as much as it is possible to do so within the covers of a book. And I’m hugely grateful to Måns for his trust in bringing me to work with him at Riksteatern and to all the artists I got to work with during those two years."
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