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gregasquith

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About gregasquith

Founder of Shaerd

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    Comment #26781477

    Very true. I have to confess to a very leading question there, as I am building exactly this and thinking long and hard about monetisation. I do like the cable analogy and think it…

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    Comment #26781196

    Is there now a gap for a new social platform that goes back to chronologically ordered content from those you choose to follow/friend rather than algorithmically curated content fr…

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    Comment #26780460

    Scrollbait?

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    Comment #26777719

    Yeah, the problem is those that are seeing/potentially being manipulated by this are (I would imagine) highly unlikely to use a browser extension or (more likely, in developing nat…

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    Comment #26777701

    The quote “There is a lot of harm being done on Facebook that is not being responded to because it is not considered enough of a PR risk to Facebook,” kind of sums it up!

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    Comment #26713187

    Django is a sensational piece of open source software - I've used it on so many projects. Seen some replies saying it's a pain to deploy - look at guides for Heroku and Google's Ap…

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    Comment #25685177

    100% agreed!

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    Comment #25684646

    A lot of advertisers didn't care when Safari etc. did it, such is the scale Chrome has - they just stopped targeting users not using Chrome. Now it's affecting everyone there's an …

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    Comment #25684419

    There are various proposals they are working under the umbrella of the Privacy Sandbox project, couple of key ones here: https://github.com/google/ads-privacy/tree/master/proposals…