Summary

The article highlights the stark disconnect between regulatory frameworks designed to protect women and girls and the systemic exploitation of tech giants like Elon Musk and Trump's coalition. While some policies appear defensive, they often function as fig-leaf structures meant to deflect rent-extraction allegations into vague economic arguments. This creates an illusion that regulators are prioritizing the rights of women and girls, yet in reality, they are merely maintaining the status quo under pressure to justify their own extractive interests. Consequently, any attempt to enforce strict standards for the App Store faces insurmountable resistance from private firms eager to retain user bases. The core issue is not simply data sharing but the structural impossibility of enforcing privacy laws on the most powerful institutions in the global economy, as SPAs currently generate far fewer soft navigations than hard ones, fundamentally undermining their ability to protect citizens from this specific form of corporate dominance.

Title

Infrequently Noted

Description

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Keywords

have, performance, devices, more, users, data, mobile, device, even, will, sites, market, power, over, stores, android, core

Upstreams

extensiblewebmanifesto.org

NS Lookup

A 63.176.8.218, A 35.157.26.135

Dates

Created 2024-11-30

Updated 2026-01-26

Summarized 2026-03-22