Ethan Zuckerman apologized for writing the code behind the pop-up ad while arguing that advertising had become the web’s dominant business model.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? Hide the Pain Harold

"Ethan Zuckerman apologized for writing the code behind the pop-up ad while arguing that advertising had become the web’s dominant business model."

Zuckerman explicitly says he wrote the code that launched the pop-up ad and apologizes for it while arguing that advertising and surveillance became structural features of the web.

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Source title The Internet's Original Sin

Source authors Ethan Zuckerman

Source year 2014

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