Right, because all the sites with obnoxious adblocker nags all went away.

I think we need to spend more time looking at it to see if it is really acceptable.

Narrator: It wasn't.

Google wants to replace cookies because they can be disabled by the end user. Google is terrified that a large portion of rubes will discover the "Disable third-party cookies" browser option. If that happens, their precious stream of user data dries up and the ad market collapses.

There is simply too much content and programming being produced. The MBAs have everyone convinced that audience growth just happens, don't worry about cutting the same pie into more and more slices.

The media landscape is different now than 20 years ago. Now, at least 90% of the population will consider anything to be noise.

Media executives have focus-grouped, personalized, and targeted their way into minimal audience for a plethora of mediocre productions rather than waiting for a few quality programs to gain big followings.

Surely a crypto scam is more profitable than years of selling cell phones at a loss.

Now ponder why NPM has a package for isEven().

Warner executives would have stifled it with micromanagement.

AMP is Google's scheme to host content on their network so that they can better analyze traffic and gather user data.

This decision is a victory for a free and open web.

If kids were going to learn how to program with Minecraft (or anything else, for that matter), it would have happened organically by now.

This is not strictly about security, it's about maintaining the integrity of the walled garden.

I wouldn't be surprised if Pinterest pays Google to not de-rank their results. I just wish entering -site:*.pinterest.* in Google search actually did what it should.

The entire mobile space is designed to be walled gardens. Hardware, operating systems, app stores, every level.

To Betteridge's Law of Headlines: when the question concerns Trump and the potential of his committing a crime, the answer is always yes.

Apple has built a brand cult around their products, vertically integrated at every opportunity. This is just another example of adherents rotely clamoring for some widget bearing the fruit logo and suddenly ignoring options that lack the identity fetish. The same kind of microfiber cloth can be found for $5 or less on a display rack near the checkout counter at Walgreens, among all the other generic phone accessories.

MS used to have an extensive testing farm. They shut it down for Win10.

An alternative to pre-installed proprietary OSes.

MS is offering the OEMs every carrot to stop them from going Linux, after decades of both carrots and sticks. MS dreams of becoming Apple, but clearly thinks the OEMs are necessary to maintain market position for Windows.