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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., clearing items you left in your cart, forcing you to log in again). Image source ).

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector.

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The Great Fragmentation

aweissman.com

What if the power of connected networks such as the Internet is that they unbundle all that came before them? What if the power of connected networks such as the Internet is that they unbundle all that came before them? They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation?