I'm the co-founder of Travelfish.org—the Southeast Asia travel planning website online since 2004. Based in Southeast Asai since '97 though hanging around the area since '93. Lived in Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Jakarta and Bali. Also the author of Couchfish.
Good newsletter this one.
Would say this very much is an issue of content moderation rather than censorship. Telegram is pretty much by definition a bad actor, with complete disdain for moderation, hosting of vile content (CSAM), and one that badly misrepresents its supposed lev... show more
No idea. I don’t check views/traffic at all anymore, disconnected GA a year or so ago and can’t figure out how to access the old data as GA4 was designed by people who are clearly not human. Traditionally the itineraries got a fair swack of traffic, a f... show more
As far as I understand it, blocking google-extended blocks Gemini (or whatever they are calling it today) and Vertex, but not the search crawl. See the May 14 entry in their changelog here: https://developers.google.com/search/updates#updated-the-descri... show more
Yeah, I think it is a fair assumption that anything public-facing will be hoovered up—why I designated podcasts etcetera up top as private, but yes, unless you roll your own community platform one should assume the platform you use is ingesting everythi... show more