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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.

https://cleanuptheweb.org/

#CleanUpTheWeb #google #chrome #web #dev #SmallTech #SmallWeb

Clean up the web!

cleanuptheweb.org
#google #SmallWeb #web #dev #chrome #smalltech #cleanuptheweb

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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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Please consider the bit recommending HEY and Basecamp rescinded.

AliveDevil
AliveDevil  
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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.
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@AliveDevil Yeah, I’ve already added it to my todo list.
@AliveDevil
Aliyesha.com
Aliyesha.com  
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Something that we are desperately trying here @ https://aliyesha.com.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@aliyesha Sounds great. Best of luck with this :)

💕

#SmallTech

#smalltech @Aliyesha.com
Aliyesha.com
Aliyesha.com  
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Thanks 👍, trying hard lets see where it goes.
Aliyesha.com
Aliyesha.com  
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thanks for the boost, really appreciate 🙏 .
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@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.

💕

#SmallTech

#smalltech @Aliyesha.com
Aliyesha.com
Aliyesha.com  
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With belief if you want to see the change be the change we folks ventured out at this. Privacy focused groups and people like you we follow on our personals accounts here at mastodon are true inspiration for what we are doing.

Lets try change the world bit by bit :).

Some where we have to start.

#SmallTech

#smalltech
Hugo Jonker
Hugo Jonker  
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I wasn't aware of Google FLoC. It seems... GDPR-"problematic". Where "problematic" is a euphemism for "absolutely incompatible".
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@hjonker It was the precursor to Topics (I made that site circa 2021, I believe).
@Hugo Jonker
Benjamin Egon
Benjamin Egon  
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how to clean up telemetry from cpu, gpu, network electronic components ? :(
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@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
Benjamin Egon
Benjamin Egon  
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thank you, I appreciate :

Lets focus on design school, they teach to student to use fonts.google.com in css, because its good for user because page loading si better like that 😱

Alex
Alex  
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how can I make a website that only works in Firefox or browsers that actually respect the W3C standards?
Ian Molton
Ian Molton  
You don't have to do that. You just have to make it work without recourse to extra Google shit.
Joel De Rose
Joel De Rose  
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I would love to see this happen . Going away from the pack has advantages. I'm looking for creative critical thoughts. There is so much out in this World 🌍 to do and to talk about.
The1goit :v1:
The1goit :v1:  
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My question is how do I get people to change, most people I know are set in their ways and have no intent on changing.
John Bell 🇺🇦🇪🇺🔸🕷️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
John Bell 🇺🇦🇪🇺🔸🕷️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿  
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remove all “follow me on X Meta” links that load files from those sites.
BigMcLargeHuge
BigMcLargeHuge  
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You forgot start sanitizing database inputs.
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@slavistapl Thanks so much for the offer. Let me find a chance to update the page and then ping you so as not to waste your time (might be a little while).

💕

@Oliwier Jaszczyszyn
Tanquist
Tanquist  
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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?
#angular
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@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 ;)

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app


app

A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.
Codeberg.org
@Tanquist
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@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.)
@Tanquist
Nathan Byrd
Nathan Byrd  
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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
Aral Balkan  
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@cognitivegears The @plausible folks seem to be doing things the right way.
@Plausible Analytics @Nathan Byrd
chrysn
chrysn  
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Yikes, yet another piece of text to send around due to bad engineering.
But unlike `<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />`, it's active protest and not accepting defeat against a bad legacy situation.
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@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
Roman Perevertailo :verified:
Roman Perevertailo :verified:  
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I could help you with a Ukrainian translation
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@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 Balkan
Aral Balkan  
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@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.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2023/09/07/new-google-chrome-targeted-ad-tracking-heres-how-to-stop-it/


New Google Chrome Targeted Ad Tracking—Here’s How To Stop It

Google just opted U.S. users in to “privacy enhanced” ad tracking called Topics. Here’s what Topics is, what it really means for privacy and how you can opt out of it.
Kate O'Flaherty (Forbes)
@Remco Wessels
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