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🚨 Fresh off the press today! 📰 Our new article in #Language and #Cognition shows that in #casual #conversations, humans #talk about #social #topics a lot — even more than we thought before, with 85% of conversation being about social stuff! 🗣️ Huge thanks to my co-authors and the amazing student helpers who patiently coded the texts.

If you're discussing how much humans chat about social topics (tl;dr: they talk a lot), please cite us! 🙌

Read it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/la #CambridgeCore #CambridgeUP #OpenAccess #Dunbar #CLARIN #Spokes

There might be good and bad things about all this advertisement stuff like Firefox’ PPA, Googles Topics API etc., but there is a crucial thing which always makes these thing generally unacceptable:

They are introduced & enabled without properly telling people. Either it’s is done in silence or explained with weird obscure marketing speech.

That is the biggest issue.

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1️⃣ We investigate evolving patterns of #work and #travel among #digital #nomads based on an analysis of Reddit's r/digitalnomad over 3.5 years. We show how these highly mobile professionals blend their #careers with their love for #exploration. 🧳💼

2️⃣ From #destination reviews to #emotional needs and #regulation, we identify 15 #topics across 7 #clusters that are top of mind for digital nomads. 🗺️⚖️ The impact of the pandemic is significant, yet the community has high #resilience and #adaptability.

#DataPrivacyWeek Day 5

Since #privacy online became a broader concern, #BigTech companies now attempt to appear privacy-oriented while just changing the way they spy on their users.

Such is the case with #Google disabling third-party cookies in #Chrome and developing technologies such as #FLoC or #Topics, both of which we've opposed from the very beginning.

Yes, our browser is based on #Chromium, but we do a lot of modifications to the code and take special measures to always protect our users and their privacy.

Read more: vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no

Vivaldi BrowserAlert: No Google Topics in Vivaldi BrowserSpying on people’s behavior & profiling them is wrong. That’s why we have made sure that Google’s Topics is disabled in two separate ways in Vivaldi browser.