Adrianne Jeffries
The Markup
New York, NY, United States
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Amazon Puts Its Own “Brands” First Above Better-Rated Products –
The online giant gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don’t know are connected to Amazon → Read More
As Antitrust Pressure Mounts, Google to Pull Back Benefit to News Sites That Adopted Its Preferred Mobile Technology –
Will the AMP format die as a result? → Read More
How to Stop Google Self-Preferencing? Europe May Not Be the Model –
A congressional subcommittee last week recommended new nondiscrimination rules for big tech firms, but experts say the trick is enforcement → Read More
Is Your Favorite Podcast Tracking You? –
Podcast listening is hard to track, but that doesn’t mean advertisers aren’t trying → Read More
To head of regulators, Google makes certain words taboo
As Google faces at least four major antitrust investigations on two continents, internal documents obtained by The Markup show its parent company, Alphabet, has been preparing for this moment for years, telling employees across the massive enterprise that certain language is off limits in all written communications, no matter how casual. The taboo words include … → Read More
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google –
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page → Read More
Yelp Is Sneakily Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee. → Read More
‘Are you Batman?’: How YouTube’s Volunteer Army Gets Channels Undeleted
When YouTube’s content moderation fails, super-users from the YouTube Contributors and Trusted Flagger programs are ready to intervene. → Read More
YouTube: Some Nootropics Channels Were ‘Removed Mistakenly’
The company says there is no site-wide crackdown on smart drugs, but some channels remain deleted. → Read More
A Bitcoin podcaster brilliantly trolled his own hacker
Coin Talk host Aaron Lammer tried to convince his attacker to accept Bitcoin Cash instead of Bitcoin → Read More
Hackers keep robbing cryptocurrency YouTubers
Cryptocurrency vlogging has exploded on YouTube over the last two years. In the last 90 days, there were 122,000 videos on cryptocurrency or Bitcoin uploaded to YouTube, garnering 328 million views, according to video analytics platform Tubular Labs. As it turns out, YouTubers are juicy targets for hackers because they share so much information about themselves. → Read More
The one true Bitcoin
It has been eight months since Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin, and their respective communities are still battling each other for the title of the one true Bitcoin. Why won’t the two sides lay down their arms? → Read More
Twitter briefly shut down @Bitcoin, sparking wild conspiracy theories
Twitter suspended the @Bitcoin Twitter account, which is run by an anonymous user, over the weekend. The account was briefly taken over by a user who claimed to be Turkish, then by a user who claimed to be Russian, before apparently being restored to its previous owner Monday afternoon. → Read More
Blockchain laws tend to be hasty, unnecessary, and extremely thirsty
The blockchain legislation trend seems to be accelerating. Hawaii, New York, Colorado, Nebraska, Vermont, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, and North Dakota are among the states considering bills around blockchain or cryptocurrencies. → Read More
Inside the bizarre upside-down bankruptcy of Mt. Gox
By definition, bankruptcy occurs when an entity cannot pay its debts. But as of this writing, Mt. Gox has enough assets to pay off its claims with more than $1.4 billion worth of bitcoins left over. The trouble is figuring out what to do with them. → Read More
Crypto.com is not for sale
The domain is owned by cryptologist Matt Blaze, and he’s not impressed with your ICO → Read More
‘Blockchain’ is meaningless
The idea of a blockchain, the cryptographically enhanced digital ledger that underpins Bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies, is now being used to describe everything from a system for inter-bank transactions to a new supply chain database for Walmart. The term has become so widespread that it’s quickly losing meaning. → Read More
Report: Coinbase made 43 percent of its 2017 revenue in December alone
The digital currency exchange and wallet service Coinbase, founded in 2012 and backed by Silicon Valley investors, recently told shareholders that it booked $1 billion in revenue in 2017. A new independent analysis says about 43 percent of that came in December when the price of bitcoin was surging, and the company’s revenue has plummeted since then. → Read More
Exclusive: Telegram is holding a secretive second pre-ICO sale
The company is raising even more cash for its controversial blockchain-powered network → Read More
Coinbase is erratically overcharging some users and emptying their bank accounts
A growing number of Coinbase customers are complaining on social media that the cryptocurrency exchange withdrew unauthorized money out of their accounts. In some cases, this drained their linked bank accounts below zero, resulting in overdraft charges. → Read More