Il y a 30 ans, le CERN et Tim Berners-Lee placèrent le web dans le domaine public.
Dans un an, le Manifest V2 de Chrome ne sera plus supporté, obligeant les développeurs d’extensions à s’adapter à la V3. Derrière ce changement, Chrome parle de sécurité et de performances. Mais la problématique est plus profonde et touche au blocage publicitaire. Explications.
Du web par la blockchain et un rêve de décentralisation ? C’est le projet Web3 dont certains technophiles ne cessent de parler en cette fin d’année 2021. Mais la logique de financiarisation qui sous-tend ce nouveau concept à la mode fait débat.
Une dark pattern, en français « interface truquée », est minutieusement conçue pour tromper ou manipuler l’utilisateur d’un site ou d’une application web. Mise sous pression, obligation, obstacle, cachotterie ou entourloupe sont des tactiques perverses qui participent de la chasse au clic sur le Net.
The White House is set to announce plans this week for its much-anticipated Alliance for the Future of the Internet, a bid to rally a coalition of democracies around a vision for an open and free web.
According to a draft proposal leaked to POLITICO last month, the alliance was originally conceived as a group of “like-minded countries” making a set of specific commitments to “promote a new and better vision of an open, trusted, and secure internet.” That includes commitments in areas related to cybersecurity, privacy and data transfers, among other things. The idea for the alliance was spearheaded by Peter Harrell, senior director for international economics and competitiveness on the National Security Council, and Tim Wu, a prominent tech critic and current special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy. It was timed to launch “on the margins” of the Summit for Democracy, which kicks off Thursday and will gather leaders from more than 100 countries to discuss how to stop the spread of authoritarianism around the world.
Petit souvenir ému de la série Silicon Valley et de la startup Pied Piper, qui proposait précisément de construire un internet totalement décentralisé et qui avait réussi une levée de fond en comptant sur les cryptomonnaie. La fin est incroyablement politique et elle devrait nous faire méditer.
Today, however, we’ve moved into a siloed web — and the line no longer applies. Information on one part of the internet is likely to stay there, and only a tiny percent of stories break through. Rather than one big community, the web is a community of communities. And often, they don’t overlap at all.
The siloed internet is, in part, a product of paywalls.
For paywalled news to spread, other sites must aggregate it. And aggregation is dying in the paywall era.
There are downsides to a no-longer-flat internet. Filter bubbles are legitimately concerning and have broken once-universal agreements on what is true. Polarization is worsening too. But the silos are here and not likely to disappear. The good news is that publications, once left for dead, are actually getting paid for their work. And if there’s one thing better than a newspaper that everyone reads, it’s many thriving newspapers, each making a go of it on their own.
Is it just me or does nobody have their own website anymore? OK, some people do. But a lot of these sites are outdated, or just a list of links to profiles on big tech platforms. Despite being people who build websites, who love to share on the web, we don’t share much on our own sites.