Mark Nottingham

More belated introspection from the adtech industry. https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/the-privacy-zealots-were-right-ad-techs-infrastructure-was-always-a-risk/

Openness makes the Internet harder to govern — but also makes it resilient, innovative, and difficult to capture. Let's look at how the openness of the Internet both defines it and ensures its success. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/20/open_systems

The Power of 'No' in Internet Standards The voluntary nature of Internet standards means that the biggest power move may be to avoid playing the game. Let's take a look.

If you work on the web, you should read @mnot.net's latest:

mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/…

It much more elegantly gets to the core of the pro/anti-progress asymmetry I tried to explore last year:

infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-c…

The voluntary nature of Internet standards means that the biggest power move may be to avoid playing the game. Let's take a look. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no

Hmm, this one shows promise... https://consult.treasury.gov.au/c2026-739506

Right now, companies are hawking new AI features. They're not built for users -- they're built to satisfy management and investors.

I'll know they're serious when they start pushing new features that *happen* to use AI, but are designed to solve specific problems.

Social media companies baking fake notification indicators into their favicon is borderline abusive behaviour.

The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/01/20/open_web

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/world-without-rules

I can see that you two share a certain style of communication... :)

My great great great grandfather worked for them. Good gig, apparently.

www.marineband.marines.mil/About/Our-Hi...

"UN sticks with not-multilateral internet governance model" (there I fixed it for you :)

Software update #2: I've made a small tweak to https://rfc.fyi/ to make it much more useful; when considering how many references an RFC has, it also counts those from the RFCs it obsoletes. That means that searching for a term like 'HTTP' or 'DNS' returns the most relevant RFCs first!

Software update #1: https://redbot.org/ has a range of new tests -- including updates to caching and support for Content Security Policy, Permissions Policy, and CORS -- and now is multilingual! Please take a look and give feedback.

there, that should do it...

hmm, ok. Sleep now, debug morning.

OK try again when you get a chance.

OK, I see a bug. Not sure why it's affecting you, but...

yep, fr-FR

ok sent a request and append &THIBAULT to the URL :)

GitHub - mnot/redbot: REDbot is lint for HTTP resources. REDbot is lint for HTTP resources. Contribute to mnot/redbot development by creating an account on GitHub.

Very odd indeed. Code is github.com/mnot/redbot . Perhaps I'll start logging Accept-Language...

how have you configured firefox? It has two separate language settings...

OK try now

ah yes I see the times not being translated -- something is not right, I'd fixed that...

which site is that testing?

weird weird weird. I've got it working in both Chrome and FF.

Note that the message on the front page isn't internationalised yet, but the rest is.

In-ter-est-ing. On FF, that's including if you test a site?

Hmm, which browser? Works in Firefox.

REDbot Lint for your HTTP resources

Go to redbot.org with a browser that's configured to prefer French...