Our recommended reads from around the web:

• The New Yorker: In Silicon Valley Now, It’s Almost Always Winner Takes All (7 min read)
• Fortune: Is Blocking Readers Who Use Ad Blockers The Best Strategy? (4 min read)
• Ad Age: Why Ad Tech Is the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Advertising (4 min read)
• AdExchanger: The Consumer POV On Cross-Device Tracking: ‘No, Thanks’ (5 min read)
• Slate: Twitter Isn’t Raising the Character Limit. It’s Becoming a Walled Garden. (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab: The Year We Start to Talk About “The Business Side” (4 min read)
• AdExchanger: The Platformization Of Content: The Year Publishers Paired With Facebook, Snapchat, Google and Apple (6 min read)
• Washington Post: Meet the digital dissenters: They’re fighting for a better Internet (16 min read)
• Guardian: Ad-blocking and fraud pose big questions for online advertising (3 min read)
• Ad Age: The $24 Billion Data Business That Telcos Don’t Want to Talk About (7 min read)
• Digiday: Opinion: The big lies of ad tech (7 min read)
• Wired: This Was the Year the Media Started Doubting the Web (5 min read)