Mon Dec 6

Questions about anything?

flask

I've done one last update to the flask demo blog app, putting in a json API and ajax js "number of posts".

economics

Here are some sources on topics related to money and the internet - perhaps for discussion on our last class on Thursday. (Along with a big "what we did this term", depending on interest and where the conversation takes us.)

browsers, tracking, cookies, and all that

• privacy.net - How cookies track you around the web and how to stop them
• cookieserve.com ... type "https://amazon.com" to see the list of 60 (!) cookies.
• coveryourtracks.eff.org - look at how identifiable your browser is, and what sorts cookies it allows.
• mozilla blog - This is your digital fingerprint

advertising, ecommerce, and the big five

• ads.google.com
  • You pay them to put your ads in (a) search, (b) other sites, (c) maps
  • People paid google $169B in 2020
• google.com/adsense
  • They pay you to put other people's ads on your site.
  • (googling "facebook ad revenue" says $28B in 3rd quarter of 2021)
• facebook.com/business.com
  • You pay them to put your ads on facbook pages.
• wikipedia: shopify
  • Their software lets people buy things on your website.
  • 1.6M sites use it; $61B spent on 2019/
• wikipedia: amazon
  • AWS - largest cloud services ($45B 2020 sales)
  • amazon.com - largest online marketplace (100M prime members)
• wikipedia: Big Tech
  • Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft
  • $1T to $2T stock worth each