2022-01-26
Google FLoC is dead! Google has decided to scrap FLoC after “a bunch of great feedback from the community, as I'm sure you know” 🥳 https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Google shutters FLoC, its controversial ad tech for replacing third-party cookies, and proposes Topics, which categorizes the sites users visit into 300+ topics
2020-08-30
Seems like Medium has listened to the feedback! 👏 No more pop-ups, overlays, intrusive headers or other distractions Custom domains are back Improved distribution and discovery https://blog.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Official Medium Blog
Medium says it had 1.2B page views in Q2 and now has “several hundred thousand” paying subscribers, and will start offering custom domains again
Ev Williams / The Official Medium Blog :
2020-04-12
I like it when even @Cloudflare starts to de-Google-ify. “We recently migrated from Google's reCAPTCHA to the independent hCaptcha. It helps address a privacy concern inherent to relying on a Google service...” https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
ZDNet
Cloudflare says it will drop Google's reCAPTCHA bot detection service, as Google plans to charge for its use, and replace it with Intuition Machines' hCAPTCHA
Cloudflare says its moving to hCaptcha, an alternative CAPTCHA service, more private than reCAPTCHA.
2020-01-15
Google plans to block third-party cookies in Chrome within two years. “By default, a website will not be able to ID you or track you across multiple visits”. This is big news but gives a long time for all the tracking companies to perfect other methods. https://www.cnet.com/...
CNET
Google says it will phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years
just not anytime soon Tweets: Justin Schuh / @justinschuh : We shared an update today on our plans to phase out 3P tracking from the Web over the next two years. https://blog.chrom...
2019-09-20
.@photomatt: “I think there's potential to get to a similar market share as Android, which I believe now has 85% of all handsets. When you think about it, open source has a virtuous cycle of adoption, people building on the platform and more adoption” https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Automattic raises $300M Series D from Salesforce Ventures at a post-money valuation of $3B
Today Automattic announced it has closed … Sara Fischer / Axios : WordPress.com owner Automattic raises $300 million Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Automattic Raises $300M Se...
2019-09-19
.@photomatt: “I think there's potential to get to a similar market share as Android, which I believe now has 85% of all handsets. When you think about it, open source has a virtuous cycle of adoption, people building on the platform and more adoption” https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Automattic raises $300M Series D from Salesforce Ventures at a post-money valuation of $3B
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and soon Tumblr, has closed a $300 million funding round at a $3 billion post-money valuation. The Series D round has a s...