Don Marti
@dmarti.bsky.social
VP of Ecosystem Innovation at Raptive, usually either the privacy person in the ad meeting or the ad person in the privacy meeting. Speaking only for myself here he/his/him
https://blog.zgp.org/about/
https://blog.zgp.org/about/
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Firefox hit me today with the fucking AI bot popups
discovered some of the browser .ml .* shit i'd disabled in about:config had *switched back on*
someone at @mozilla.org is playing fuck fuck games with users' preferences.
hey @mozilla.org who is responsible for this?
discovered some of the browser .ml .* shit i'd disabled in about:config had *switched back on*
someone at @mozilla.org is playing fuck fuck games with users' preferences.
hey @mozilla.org who is responsible for this?
September 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Firefox hit me today with the fucking AI bot popups
discovered some of the browser .ml .* shit i'd disabled in about:config had *switched back on*
someone at @mozilla.org is playing fuck fuck games with users' preferences.
hey @mozilla.org who is responsible for this?
discovered some of the browser .ml .* shit i'd disabled in about:config had *switched back on*
someone at @mozilla.org is playing fuck fuck games with users' preferences.
hey @mozilla.org who is responsible for this?
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“With privacy under unprecedented attack by data brokers and social media, it is the wrong time to weaken these protections."
Take a look at this article co-written by OP member @dmarti.bsky.social discussing the repercussions of SB 690 on the dismantling of CA's CIPA.
Take a look at this article co-written by OP member @dmarti.bsky.social discussing the repercussions of SB 690 on the dismantling of CA's CIPA.
Why Weakening CIPA Would Hand Big Tech A Free Pass On Data Abuse | AdExchanger
With privacy under unprecedented attack by data brokers and social media, it's is the wrong time to weaken CIPA's private right of action protections.
www.adexchanger.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“With privacy under unprecedented attack by data brokers and social media, it is the wrong time to weaken these protections."
Take a look at this article co-written by OP member @dmarti.bsky.social discussing the repercussions of SB 690 on the dismantling of CA's CIPA.
Take a look at this article co-written by OP member @dmarti.bsky.social discussing the repercussions of SB 690 on the dismantling of CA's CIPA.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
One-third of all scams in the USA originate with Meta?
Not quite—the real source is the companies that pass personal info to Meta, knowing that Meta's ML will use it to inflict harm.
Fortunately, #California has a #privacy law that—when used properly—will help.
www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...
Not quite—the real source is the companies that pass personal info to Meta, knowing that Meta's ML will use it to inflict harm.
Fortunately, #California has a #privacy law that—when used properly—will help.
www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...
Why Weakening CIPA Would Hand Big Tech A Free Pass On Data Abuse | AdExchanger
With privacy under unprecedented attack by data brokers and social media, it's is the wrong time to weaken CIPA's private right of action protections.
www.adexchanger.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
One-third of all scams in the USA originate with Meta?
Not quite—the real source is the companies that pass personal info to Meta, knowing that Meta's ML will use it to inflict harm.
Fortunately, #California has a #privacy law that—when used properly—will help.
www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...
Not quite—the real source is the companies that pass personal info to Meta, knowing that Meta's ML will use it to inflict harm.
Fortunately, #California has a #privacy law that—when used properly—will help.
www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...
So let's say, hypothetically, that some teenager in the USA is an AI skeptic or even "AI vegan" and working on a college short list. Any strategies to avoid getting stuck with slop for 4 years? (This research is hard enough without the whole AI fad thing)
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
So let's say, hypothetically, that some teenager in the USA is an AI skeptic or even "AI vegan" and working on a college short list. Any strategies to avoid getting stuck with slop for 4 years? (This research is hard enough without the whole AI fad thing)
Mix #scamCulture with the efficiency of #openSource, and you get #surveillanceCapitalism and an economy-wide collapse in trust.
While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
The traffic and revenue crisis for news is a symptom of Big Tech’s economy-wide trust collapse
The news business is a key part of the solution.
rjionline.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Mix #scamCulture with the efficiency of #openSource, and you get #surveillanceCapitalism and an economy-wide collapse in trust.
While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
Every time I try a Google Search for [sergey brin epstein files] Google gives me a CAPTCHA...is this happening for anyone else?
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Every time I try a Google Search for [sergey brin epstein files] Google gives me a CAPTCHA...is this happening for anyone else?
This is mostly good advice, but has one problem. The biggest ad-related threat to most random users now is fake SaaS and employee portal login pages on Google Search.
Users try to go to the site where they have an account, click on the Google ad, and get compromised. 1/3
Users try to go to the site where they have an account, click on the Google ad, and get compromised. 1/3
Millions browse the web on school, library, and workplace computers that leave them exposed to hidden trackers. Privacy Badger can be installed organization-wide to enhance privacy and security on these devices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy
In an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communities’ privacy. Schools, libraries, and other organizations can make private
www.eff.org
September 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is mostly good advice, but has one problem. The biggest ad-related threat to most random users now is fake SaaS and employee portal login pages on Google Search.
Users try to go to the site where they have an account, click on the Google ad, and get compromised. 1/3
Users try to go to the site where they have an account, click on the Google ad, and get compromised. 1/3
Another web maintenance todo: if you still have #groklaw links on your blog or other site, time to make a local copy of the original pages from archive.org and fix the links
fossforce.com/2025/08/grok...
fossforce.com/2025/08/grok...
Groklaw Domain Hijacked? Site Now Serving Crypto Content - FOSS Force
Groklaw’s storied domain has fallen into unexpected hands. What’s behind the sudden flood of crypto content—and is the site lost for good?
fossforce.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Another web maintenance todo: if you still have #groklaw links on your blog or other site, time to make a local copy of the original pages from archive.org and fix the links
fossforce.com/2025/08/grok...
fossforce.com/2025/08/grok...
Drone strikes on refineries and tanker terminals (easier to put out of action with a smaller drone because they're already flammable) could even be revenue-positive for a terrorist group that can invest in the oil futures market #energySecurity
Fourteen years ago, I read an article, this 👇 article, about how the west is underestimated the potential threat from drones.
Today, it seems eerily prescient.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Today, it seems eerily prescient.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Failure of Imagination: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and International Security
This article analyzes recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology and draws three conclusions. First, conventional military forces are highly vulnerable to armed UAVs. A small force...
www.tandfonline.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Drone strikes on refineries and tanker terminals (easier to put out of action with a smaller drone because they're already flammable) could even be revenue-positive for a terrorist group that can invest in the oil futures market #energySecurity
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What can I say, the cover of the incoming Spanish translation of Blood in the Machine is absolutely incredible.
August 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
What can I say, the cover of the incoming Spanish translation of Blood in the Machine is absolutely incredible.
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This is a very interesting paper (HT @older.bsky.social & @philippmarkolin.bsky.social). I need to sit on some of these thoughts a little longer, but here's a first approximation 🧵 of reactions — in no particular order and without much filtering.
We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...
arxiv.org
August 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is a very interesting paper (HT @older.bsky.social & @philippmarkolin.bsky.social). I need to sit on some of these thoughts a little longer, but here's a first approximation 🧵 of reactions — in no particular order and without much filtering.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -- George Orwell
Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search
Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search
Changes to Search have sent ripples across the media industry.
buff.ly
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -- George Orwell
Q: how do you get the Board of Directors to give you a 29 billion dollar pay raise?
A:
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can elon musk stop doing weird ai sex stuff for 5 minutes
Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.
www.theverge.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Q: how do you get the Board of Directors to give you a 29 billion dollar pay raise?
A:
A:
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Consider, your Honor, that my client was being extremely productive at the time of the crash.
July 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Consider, your Honor, that my client was being extremely productive at the time of the crash.
Great article, but I don't believe that the fall of the "Magnificent 7" firms will crash the stock market.
Ever since Big Tech pivoted from "create more value than you capture" to the other way around, every $1 in Big Tech market cap means the destruction of > $1 in the legit economy
Ever since Big Tech pivoted from "create more value than you capture" to the other way around, every $1 in Big Tech market cap means the destruction of > $1 in the legit economy
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
www.wheresyoured.at
July 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Great article, but I don't believe that the fall of the "Magnificent 7" firms will crash the stock market.
Ever since Big Tech pivoted from "create more value than you capture" to the other way around, every $1 in Big Tech market cap means the destruction of > $1 in the legit economy
Ever since Big Tech pivoted from "create more value than you capture" to the other way around, every $1 in Big Tech market cap means the destruction of > $1 in the legit economy
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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
www.wheresyoured.at
July 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/t... "Those who believed the piece was AI-generated were 14% less likely to consider purchasing the product featured in the adjacent ad."
MSN
www.msn.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
www.msn.com/en-us/news/t... "Those who believed the piece was AI-generated were 14% less likely to consider purchasing the product featured in the adjacent ad."
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I wrote for a magazine called Risk Management and went to risk management conferences and this is 100% true. The people who file and pay out insurance claims know climate change is real.
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I wrote for a magazine called Risk Management and went to risk management conferences and this is 100% true. The people who file and pay out insurance claims know climate change is real.
Just tested out @manusai.bsky.social to see if the agent can make it through a #CCPA #RtK process on the verizon.com site. Good news -- after a dead end first attempt, it looks like it worked!
blog.zgp.org/encouraging-...
blog.zgp.org/encouraging-...
encouraging first result from an AI right to know
blog.zgp.org
June 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just tested out @manusai.bsky.social to see if the agent can make it through a #CCPA #RtK process on the verizon.com site. Good news -- after a dead end first attempt, it looks like it worked!
blog.zgp.org/encouraging-...
blog.zgp.org/encouraging-...
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No judge should be worried about their personal safety when they’re deciding a case. That’s how the rule of law ends.
I’m proud to lead a bipartisan group of my colleagues in demanding that we fund efforts to get Judges' personal information off the internet.
I’m proud to lead a bipartisan group of my colleagues in demanding that we fund efforts to get Judges' personal information off the internet.
June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
No judge should be worried about their personal safety when they’re deciding a case. That’s how the rule of law ends.
I’m proud to lead a bipartisan group of my colleagues in demanding that we fund efforts to get Judges' personal information off the internet.
I’m proud to lead a bipartisan group of my colleagues in demanding that we fund efforts to get Judges' personal information off the internet.
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guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
June 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
A report about how Google's AI helps catch fake ads on Google is not exactly the best #contentMarketing for Google's AI.
Check other sources of info about the scam ad problem over there and you'll see Google has even run fake ads for (checks notes) ads.google.com
Check other sources of info about the scam ad problem over there and you'll see Google has even run fake ads for (checks notes) ads.google.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A report about how Google's AI helps catch fake ads on Google is not exactly the best #contentMarketing for Google's AI.
Check other sources of info about the scam ad problem over there and you'll see Google has even run fake ads for (checks notes) ads.google.com
Check other sources of info about the scam ad problem over there and you'll see Google has even run fake ads for (checks notes) ads.google.com
Good reminder to block all the fundraising texts (and the bridge toll and traffic ticket texts while you're at it)
I just received a text to donate given Sen. Cory Booker filibuster.
I looked the PAC up; HOLD THE LINE is a Republican/conservative independent PAC that contributed >$20k to Donald Trump in the last cycle.
Is this 💩 even legal?
I looked the PAC up; HOLD THE LINE is a Republican/conservative independent PAC that contributed >$20k to Donald Trump in the last cycle.
Is this 💩 even legal?
April 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Good reminder to block all the fundraising texts (and the bridge toll and traffic ticket texts while you're at it)