Privacy

It's the end of 2024, and compared to 10 years ago, there's a lot of changes when it comes to privacy.

Ask a teenager these days about why privacy matters, and they will say it doesn't -- there is no privacy anymore.

But would you willingly put your credit cards out on a bulletin board, inviting anyone to buy stuff on your dime?

For the holidays, we're highlighting some awesome Free/Open Source software -- three amazing platforms that have gone far beyond any commercial/proprietary competitor.

Last week the Note to Self podcast put together a thought-provoking, action-inspiring series called The Privacy Paradox.

People who know me know I can get stubborn when I get sold on a particular technology. For the past year, my favorite is Matrix, a distributed chat system that addresses pretty much everything anyone wants from a messaging system. The only catch? Not that many "regular people" are using it yet.

Chances are, whenever you do anything on any website in the world, Google knows about it. That's because half of the top million sites use Google Analytics to track everywhere you go. Nearly 2/3rds of the top 10,000 sites use Google Analytics. And out of all 186 million active web sites in the world, including a huge number of spam or parked domains, nearly 16 million of them use Google Analytics.