So I'm working on an electron version[1] that has what I remember of the core UX. I wasn't the best user of NV – I'm sure it had features that I didn't use. If there are features that it had that you used, I'd certainly like to be aware of them.

[1]: https://github.com/ralphsaunders/nv-electron

My gut feel is that most users don't understand what "tracking" really means and simply want to enjoy digital experiences without having to engage with the "what & how" that comes with modern platforms. My partner (and I reckon many other "normal" people) loves the ads on Instagram and enjoys the personalisation on YouTube & Netflix.

The current solution of "be transparent and it's okay" just forces decisions onto consumers that they do not want. The "good" solution outlined in this article (accept/reject) is a big yes or a big no – a green light for everything vs a red light for nothing.

There needs to be further regulation in this space that defines legal vs illegal uses of user data beyond the principals laid out in GDPR. The regulation should aim to define the "what & how", relieving the burden of choice from users and removing this "consent and it's okay" loophole for invasive use of data.

I hate scrolling through twitter, so I built a service to email me the best tweets in my feed. It's self signup and there's a discount code in the signup process if you'd like to be an Alpha user/avoid the fee.

A handful of friends are using it and for the most part it's doing what I wanted it to do.

Not sure what the future holds given the recently cancelled 3rd party apps debacle.

P.S. I adventured into writing this on the Firebase stack (Firestore and Cloud Functions). Probably wouldn't again – the cold starts are simply too slow and the mitigations they suggest haven't been effective.

If it is indeed endemic in some categories at Amazon then surely the leadership at Amazon are aware. Do they just not care?

If I were a publisher I’d be furious at this situation. A regulator really needs to investigate and make Amazon police this more effectively.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31778191

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There are many businesses trying to be compliant whilst maintaining access to metrics their business depends on.

Compliance is very difficult at this time as the legal advice is shifting in different territories and there is conflicting guidance when you start to dig into it.

Id rather see a selection of activities and tactics entirely banned/regulated rather than this directive which is clearly too open to interpretation.

I burned out in a job, and went straight into a new one that was less demanding.

I didn’t try to do much at all for a while. It was more than a 18 months later when I had the itch to do more again.

My takeaway from this has been - be thankful and enjoy the process - don’t try to force things.

It’s like there’s only one supermarket where you can sell your products, but they can still compete with you as you described.

Please excuse my ignorance.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065161

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Surely this could be done in a smarter way, using one of the many CSS preprocessors to replace the variable mapping done by `classes()`?

After all, the `render()` template just needs to reference variables!

    [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('div'), function(el) {
        el.classList.add('new');
    });

Though with frameworks like Angular or React I'm beginning to question whether we should ever be writing code like this at all.