Ryan Jordan
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294 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Ryan Jordan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Instead, this article is a document-based analysis of what the available record supports, what remains disputed, and what members cannot verify from publicly available information.
That article is titled REI's Labor Fight is a test.
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Okay, let's move on, but in the same vein of consumer advocacy, let's talk a little bit about online privacy.
This spring, we have made some major changes to our website infrastructure to improve and protect your online privacy.
These changes focus around one big core initiative.
We do not want to play a part in brokering or otherwise sending your personal browsing behavior or identifying information to third-party advertisers.
This includes advertisers and affiliates and sponsors and ad networks or social media companies.
To achieve this end, we have removed all third-party tracking cookies, third-party tracking pixels, and the other kind of insidious bits of code that follow you all around the internet.
Our goal is to make sure that when you visit backpackinglight.com, nobody else has access to your browsing data that can be used to target or follow you elsewhere online.
Now, as part of this initiative, we built our own internal ad platform and we no longer serve any network.
And no third-party advertising.
So, in addition, we also built our own enterprise class internal site search engine, which is super fast, really powerful, and not integrated with Google or any other advertising platform.
And so we're now fully divested from participating in ad tracking from all the big tech companies, including Google and Meta.
Obviously moving in this direction will reduce some of our historic revenue revenue streams, but I think at the end of the day, at least as an independent publisher, it gives me so much satisfaction to be able to focus on the needs and desires of our membership first.
And you all have been asking for a more privacy-centric experience.
And I'm really excited to have moved in this direction.
Many of you are lifetime members, grandfathered, grandfathered in from a time when we used to sell lifetime memberships before we fully transitioned to an annual membership model.
And you all have asked about ways to continue supporting Backpacking Light, even though you no longer have to pay any annual membership fees.
So we do give you the opportunity to make one-time or recurring contributions.
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