I often hear about this slightly creepy internet experience: you’re looking at a product online, and a day later see an ad for the same boots or whatever that you were looking at. This is called “retargeting”, but how does it actually work exactly in practice? In this post we’ll experiment a bit and see exactly how Facebook can know[…]
Read moreApple Maps, which (in theory) unlike Google Maps has no interest in tracking where you go or what you are looking for, is now available on the web thanks to a partnership with DuckDuckGo. A valuable combination of mapping and privacy. But why not an open map? DuckDuckGo can now offer users improved address searches, additional visual features, enhanced satellite[…]
Read moreChange your static timestamp to an automatically updating copyright year or other dynamic timestamp. Ever looked at a website and wondered if it is still in operation? Maybe a thing or two looked like they could have been updated – and then you notice the copyright notice the in the footer. “2012. Right, this site must be dead. Let’s move[…]
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