You can reach us at you don’t already get this newsletter in your inbox, please sign up here. Tell us what you think of this newsletter and what else you’d like us to explore. And it’s possible the attackers are still hanging out in government and corporate computer networks.įacebook is a private State Department: ProPublica reported that Facebook executives sided with Turkey’s demand to block material on the military’s attacks on the Kurdish minority rather than risk being shut down in the country. Brian’s results weren’t wow, but he has advice for us.Įverything is not fine with that Russian cyberattack: Members of Congress and corporate executives still aren’t sure how Russia pulled off one of the most sophisticated computer hacks in history, my colleague David E. Chen tested a crop of the new generation of Wi-Fi routers that promise to make our home internet connections zippier and more reliable. Routers are very boring but important: My colleague Brian X. (Full disclosure: My sister works for a hotel workers’ union that has advocated for tighter regulation of Airbnb.) Airbnb, the iPhone app store and DoorDash bring in huge numbers of customers who wouldn’t be there otherwise. Finding a bunch of restaurants, places to stay or merchants in one app is handy. I don’t know if it is possible to wean people off these middlemen. It is all the same flavor of grievance.Īnd like some restaurants, hotels and app makers, unhappy Airbnb hosts told Erin that they wanted customers to come to them directly and skip the all-powerful matchmaker. The party that is offering something for sale often believes the middleman is charging them too much, making unfair rules or growing more powerful at their expense. What Erin heard from Airbnb hosts fits this pattern. Some app makers feel they get a raw deal from Apple. Lots of merchants who sell on Amazon feel they get the short end of the stick. Restaurants hate it, and couriers sometimes do, too. DoorDash connects restaurants with people who want a meal at home. But Erin’s reporting pointed out an underlying flaw with practically all of the digital matchmakers like Airbnb that connect willing sellers and buyers: People eventually hate their guts.Įxpedia matches hotels with people who want a room. It can be hard to feel sympathy for people who own nice homes and rent them on Airbnb. It made some of them realize how little power they had. (Have I mentioned this?) But for now, JustWatch feels like the next best thing.Įrin spoke to homeowners who felt that Airbnb’s pandemic-related refunds to renters hurt their livelihoods. There is still no universal guide to the new TV, because streaming entertainment is a mess.
Croyé said that it would be counterproductive if JustWatch betrayed our trust that way. You could imagine that JustWatch might steer us to watch “Paddington” on Hulu because the company pays for the recommendation. It can be a red flag when companies make money from data rather than people using their products.
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Sony’s movie studio might use JustWatch’s information to target online movie trailers to horror film fans. It makes money by harnessing data on what people watch to tailor entertainment companies’ strategies. Other companies like Roku started out promising to be neutral streaming helpers and didn’t stay that way.
(Margaret also uses Flixable, a searchable database for several streaming services.) Margaret Lyons, my colleague who writes the Watching newsletter, uses JustWatch “constantly,” she said, but finds it sometimes says shows are available places they’re not.
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It won’t tell you what’s on regular TV tonight, and it makes mistakes.
JustWatch is an island of reprieve, partly because it’s not powerful enough for anyone to fear.
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