@d4ece4bd It also works in Spark, I discover; and in @29bd5f90 - so anything using Apple's webkit.
Less than 200 plays in an hour, and sent to 30,000 subscribers - I'm quite confident the traffic is probably real.
Apple is responsible for about 58% of all email opens, according to Litmus, so... possibilities are good.
Fascinating watching the test of embedded audio in the Podnews email. Half of the audio file requests say "range": "bytes=0-1" in the header and half don't; I'm trying to work out whether that's important.
https://livewire.io/a-tale-of-two-bytes-prefix-vs-host-based-analytics/ tells me it is a "streaming playback request". In this case, are these the only real plays - and are the ones without it an automated email scanning bot?
(What's also interesting is how many people read that far down the newsletter.)
I'd also like to learn more about the xpsId header - x-playback-session-id - and whether it's relevant here. It seems to be a token for an individual, a bit like the ULID that @fce803cc and others were proposing. But, at least with these two requests for the same audio from the same person one millisecond apart, it doesn't seem to actually be a session ID.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/111/069/073/017/420/252/original/0485f80092bf667c.png
This is some really good reporting by Coffeezilla. And, goodness, what a story. Well worth a watch (it's a 20-minute video, but it flies by). #podcasting https://podnews.net/update/kast-media-investigation
@68a77ba3 Hmm - just realised that the trailer is less than one minute long and so therefore won't ever be an IAB download. Might switch to different audio.
@d3df56fb Having moved to Australia seven years ago, I wonder how this chart would work with preferential voting. How many people would vote Green as a #2 choice? More than Tory/Labour?
Preferential voting (and, come to that, compulsory voting) seems to have something going for it.
Just updated Podnews's privacy statement - https://podnews.net/privacy - removing the Podevents website (which doesn't exist any more, other than a few redirect statements). I like this privacy statement. It's honest, clear (?), and detailed - and, importantly, not a random copy/paste from someone else.
@9f772790 For a VPN (using the DNS services provided by it), I guess the only time a domain-name is seen by your ISP is when you're connecting to the VPN - otherwise it'll be hidden in the VPN's encrypted datastream. So, effectively, everything is hidden from your ISP apart from the initial connection - so perhaps arguably ECH isn't required if you're running a VPN.
Having read Tunnelbear's post, it looks like they'll support it for connecting to their VPN; that's all.
Here's a simple script that actually works in September 2023 for auto-posting tweets to #Twitter using #PHP - lots of outdated documentation around, so I hope this is useful to seed into Google somehow
https://james.cridland.net/blog/2023/twitter-api/
Spent quite some time fiddling with Twitter's API (which the documentation - goodness) to rebuild the @6f677cee tweeter. It's now done, so that's nice.
@630be9a4 I wonder whether the use of racist language is really acceptable here. His race - irish - is nothing to do with the way he ran the company. Please reconsider.
@0a3f493d No bad intent. Just asking.
Most experts appear to agree that high levels of shoplifting would appear to be driven by the high cost of living, rather than self-service checkouts. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102772936 has a good, well-researched, piece about it (not least, that's it's a global phenomenon that appears unrelated to staffing levels).
I get a bit tired with knee-jerk reactions against technology, when it doesn't appear to be a technology problem.
Cancelling my AUD $29/month Riverside subscription.
The cancel button fires a tracking event to Facebook (?!), but doesn't appear to actually do anything else. Mind, the amount of tracking on the Riverside website is really something else, so probably one of the many other companies they're using (all of which are blocked on my system) may be the reason. I count bugs from called DataDog; Profitwell; Segment; WDFL, whoever that is; Google Tag Manager; ZDAssets; Dropbox (?!); etc.
To give them credit, they have support that's open during Aussie working hours, and their support person instantly cancelled the account and didn't ask any questions or try to convince me to stay, so that's nice.
@0a3f493d Still don't get it, sorry. Is your point that you don't like self-service checkouts and therefore people should steal from the store? Trying to understand your point.
@166ca8c0 Also... with your SLQ library card, you gain access to PressReader which has lots of other magazines and newspapers from across the world. An SLQ library card is available online (no need to visit!). I use it for The Economist.
(PressReader is also available while connected to Brisbane Libraries wifi, but that means leaving the house)
@0a3f493d Not sure I understand your point. Shoppers are being inconsiderate, rude and unpleasant to staff. How does having fewer self-checkouts help?
Or do you just not like the self-checkouts? That's fair enough, but unrelated.
Imagine working in customer service these days - I can't think of anything worse.
@a7fefd93 I asked one instance operator if they would remove the account, and they were really rude in response. Disappointingly, that seems the only option.
@4683ffcd@6a75920f DNS blocklisting - ah, yes, I think Control-D (or one of the blocklists it uses) marked ipfs.io as phishing. It has an irritating "AI" tool, which seems to get things wrong.
On the Podnews Weekly Review today - the quite admirable Ainsley Costello, Wavlake's Sam Mean, and Acast's new Chief Business Officer, Greg Glenday. And some music editing by me! It's just getting ready.
@cdd6ba74 Not sure there's reliable or useful data there. Joe Rogan has only one season. Podnews only has one season (currently, episode 1692). The Daily only has one season, etc.
podcastBusinessJournal.com/data has some info you might find useful.
@fce803cc@1b783a6b A dumb answer from them. They bought Podchaser for competitive analysis (it has consumption data from a few podcast apps and services), and as a planning tool for potential buyers.
"Why did they buy RadioPublic" is another question. Clearly an aqui-hire; but RP has been in bugfix-only mode for years now. I wish they'd open the source of the player.
Over on the other place, Glenn Beck (who I learn today is still alive) is so upset - his show has been CENSORED from Apple Podcasts?!?!?!!!!!
The truth is a little more mundane - a trademark dispute from a third-party, and Glenn didn't check his email. Oops.
I've got an example of the email he got - because I, too, have sent trademark disputes to Apple (not to Glenn though).
Oh dear.
https://podnews.net/update/it-wasnt
@4683ffcd@6a75920f I think it's automated banning: podcast downloads look odd for most networks, and I think there's just some bad code. Cloudflare can do this unless you turn most of their anti-DDOS stuff off.
@9fb1799e@68a77ba3@6a75920f@fce803cc Many VPNs include ad-blocking or phishing protection, and you'd be surprised how many services are blocked that way.
I use ProtonVPN as a VPN occasionally; and Control-D DNS on all my devices. Control-D also has phishing blocklists that have blocked Megaphone in the past.
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