Aral Balkan
Clean Up The Web!
Just got reminded of this little site I put together when Google had first announced FLoC – now Topics and in Chrome.
Developers, it’s up to you to clean up the web:
• Don’t make sites that only work in Google Chrome.
• Remove Google’s trackers from your web sites and apps
• Don’t legitimise Google (and other surveillance capitalists) by becoming dev advocates, writing for them, etc.
#CleanUpTheWeb #google #chrome #web #dev #SmallTech #SmallWeb
Aral Balkan
PS. That site was posted before DHH started airing his bigoted views on diversity and inclusion, etc. Back then, he was paying lip service to “small tech” (clearly I now realise we do not view things the same way at all).
Please consider the bit recommending HEY and Basecamp rescinded.
Aral Balkan
@AliveDevil Yeah, I’ve already added it to my todo list.
AliveDevil
You know … the internet doesn't forget, but sometimes the web should forget things.
Prune both links and you don't need to defend/amend posting that site with the annotation.
Wins for everyone.
Aliyesha.com
@aral Something that we are desperately trying here @ https://aliyesha.com.
Aral Balkan
@aliyesha Sounds great. Best of luck with this :)
💕
Aral Balkan
@hjonker It was the precursor to Topics (I made that site circa 2021, I believe).
Hugo Jonker
@aral I wasn't aware of Google FLoC. It seems... GDPR-"problematic". Where "problematic" is a euphemism for "absolutely incompatible".
Aral Balkan
@aliyesha No thanks necessary. It gives me hope to see folks like your yourselves embracing the small tech ethos so enthusiastically and authentically and working to try and make things better.
💕
Aliyesha.com
@aral thanks for the boost, really appreciate 🙏 .
Aliyesha.com
@aral Thanks 👍, trying hard lets see where it goes.
Aral Balkan
@aliyesha Ditto :)
Aral Balkan
@benjamin You do what you can, Benjamin. Perfect is the spot on the map you’re trying to get to. There is value in making the journey, even if the destination may currently seem out of reach. And if the place you’re at is one you know you don’t want to be in, any movement away from it towards where you do want to be is progress.
Benjamin Egon
@aral how to clean up telemetry from cpu, gpu, network electronic components ? :(
Oliwier Jaszczyszyn
@aral want help in Polish translation? I know some of the content may be outdated (FLoC has been already retracted in favour of Topics) but it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Aral Balkan
@tanquist I wish Kitten was ready for deployment but, as far as using Google tech goes, a framework is about as benign as it can get. I’d say keep going with it if it works for you for now. And keep an eye on Kitten ;)
Tanquist
@aral
I would like to make a webpage that can take user input, run a small simulation and present the output. I've been slowly learning #Angular and will be happy to bail on that. Can you recommend anything?
Aral Balkan
@tanquist (Otherwise, Svelte might be a good fit for your use case as it was originally built by a guy building visualisations for a newspaper.)
Aral Balkan
@cognitivegears The @plausible folks seem to be doing things the right way.
Nathan Byrd
@aral what would you suggest as a Google Analytics replacement for simple / small sites? Do you have any experience with Umami, Plausible or others, especially for self / free tier hosting for individual or small org sites? I definitely want to respect people’s privacy, but at the same time still want to have a sense of usage and what content is popular etc.
Aral Balkan
@remcow :)
Don’t worry about the FLoC stuff; it’s outdated (that site was from 2021). It was the precursor to Topics (which they’ve now implemented in Chrome).
Remco Wessels
@aral
• I never made any website that didn't worked in all major browsers.
• Got no trackers (but my own Matomo server) on all of my websites. Some customers still want GA though. :(
• And I certainly never legitimise Google!
• Gonna dive into the "Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()" header right away!
• Gonna use Chrome even less. Just for testing. And some Drive things from customers.
And I know your no fan of FF either but can't let go of that for now. Sorry 😏
Aral Balkan
@prvrtl Thanks so much. I really need to update the text (made the site two years ago in reaction to FLoC). All right if I ping you when I get round to that? Don’t want to make you do extra work :)
Roman Perevertailo :verified:
@aral I could help you with a Ukrainian translation
Aral Balkan
@prvrtl Thank you :)
Roman Perevertailo :verified:
@aral deal 👍
Aral Balkan
@remcow Hey, no worries.
Do you mean Google’s latest in-browser surveillance system? I don’t think so. You have to turn it off in Chrome invidiually:
“You can turn off the new ad tracking features (i.e. Topics) in your Chrome Settings > Privacy and Security > Ads Privacy and Disable Ad Topics, Site Suggested Ads and Ad Measurement.”
Remco Wessels
@aral Ha, stupid conclusion of me. I thought Topic was "just" the browser version of the same shit.
I had not taken the time to read about the newest google/chrome tracking.
So sorry for asking you. But is there a way you can block that per site or server?
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