Online Safety Act: Age Verification
TL;DR: The Online Safety Act age verification defenders are clutching at straws, ignoring fundamental human rights violations and the Act’s absurd failure to distinguish between Spotify and porn sites. Their arguments fall apart under scrutiny. Since I wrote my previous post about the Online Safety Act in March, there have been a few more developments, […]
NEW: Microsoft Outlook Authentication Requirements [2025]: Everything You Need to Know
TL;DR: Microsoft Outlook authentication is changing, and they are implementing similar spam policies as Google/Yahoo did in in Jan 2024. There are no shortcuts, unfortunately. Yet another post in line with our series on the more technical aspects of running websites & domains; FAQ Schema with Yoast, Skype uninstallation, How many days to Christmas, and […]
The Online Safety Act UK – And how we’ve got it so wrong
TL;DR: People making the laws are either too stupid or fail to understand that the Internet and, its users, don’t recognise borders. This is why The Online Safety Act will fail. Monday 17th March sees the ‘Illegal Harms Codes of Practice‘ coming into force as part of the Online Safety Act (OSA). A piece of […]
How to protect content from AI crawlers and bad bots with robots.txt file.
TLDR; How to protect content by using robots.txt file & to dissuade AI crawlers and bad bots scraping, indexing, and taking content. Ever since ChatGPT announced in early August 2023 that it had released its crawler into the wild, content creators have been nervously looking over their shoulders for ways on how to protect content. […]
What are WordPress plugins?
TL;DR: What are WordPress plugins?: They do everything, and then some. We look into what they are, what they do and where to get them. What they are, what they do & when to use them “What are WordPress plugins?” Clients occasionally ask us this question, and it’s not quite as simple as it sounds […]