They don’t have to be, as far as I understand it. I’ve installed a few websites as apps on my phone (because their app had trackers in it) and they can work really well. Examples are Bluesky and Flipboard.

An example where I agree with you is LinkedIn - installed as a web app due to trackers - but they know this, and the whole point of their app is to get you with Facebook and Microsoft trackers, so they make the web app experience miserable on purpose.

But (and correct me if I’m wrong) a PWA made by a non-surveillance capitalist could be just as good as a native app.

Valid. Except on some browsers e.g. Vivaldi you can put sites on a list that retain their cookies even when you clear the rest.

Why not a PWA?

If there was a Bandcamp for film and TV, then I would buy stuff there. DRM free.

But until then…

Oh… I thought it meant that those cookie banners were ‘false consent’ and therefore render the data collected to be illegal?

Please provide more info - I would like to learn more about this subject!

That is a great find. Thank you!

Totally. And that “legitimate interest” nonsense takes ages to click through 🤦

Damn, I hadn’t even thought about the environment impact! Is there any research quantifying that?

Thank you! The Vivaldi team are great 😁

I thought that I would need Yunohost to take care of all the web hosting stuff in the back ground…? Are you saying to just push files into the VPS barebones, or into Yunohosts website app shell? (Sorry I’m new to VPS stuff).

And how would you push the files from Codeberg? what is the method?

really? It works with just http? that is weird.

It suggests to me that the web hosting company we are using don’t know what they’re doing. We’re going to change.

If I host a website on Yunohost can I push the files from Codeberg to it using git?

Does anyone know if you can deploy files to Yunohost using Git? Or via a url from a git repository?

I’d like to host a website using Yunohost, and push the files to it from Codeberg.

good points, well written.

On the conspiracy point: Would it help to distinguish between standard use of micro-targeting (flooding the zone with shit and targeting swing voters) and foreign gov interference?

I find both to be shocking, but perhaps the latter is more conspiracy like. And the latter requires the misuse of the RTB system (e.g. the Russian military paying to pose as advertisers to get access to the RTB data), whereas the former is just an ugly byproduct of using the RTB system legally.

The site is hosting by a hosting company - and they assure me that the cert is fine.

If I was self hosting I’d expect these problems, but not with a hosting company.

The only difference with this company is that they do not use any big tech infrastructure - they have their own servers. I wonder if big tech has something they don’t…?

Interesting!

And then Fuckerberg would gaslight us by declaring that “public health is dead”

It certainly make me feel safer against big tech snooping. Is obscuring your IP address not useful? I genuinely want to hear the arguments for and against VPNs. And if they’re not effective what are better ways we can protect ourselves?

I’m in the UK and there’s a feeling amongst some that “we’re next” if we don’t curb the rise of the far right.

The Reform party’s victories here this week are another alarm bell.

I have friends and family who occupy both sides of the political spectrum, so it’s impossible to have just one message that suits both. That’s why I’ve largely avoided politics my whole life…

But tech has become political, so it’s not that easy to avoid anymore 😬

On my website homepage Rebel Tech Alliance.org I try and make it clear that we’re trying to undermine a business model, not a political ideology. But the presence of the word ‘capitalism’ in surveillance capitalism does trigger some people to start talking politics.

This is the same argument against trusting opaque algorithms from proprietary systems (usually billionaire owned). You just don’t know when they’re going to tweak it for their purposes.