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What's the limit that an indie could go without caring about GDPR. Is it actually until they want to be "commercial"?

How do you think this affect policy? Would we be likely to engage in more dangerous activities simply because we have a backup planet? E.g: 1. Maybe we would have carried on with m…

Add pet owners to the list :(. Germany seems to have a dog tax or something like that.

Haha true. And the amount of money made per user with ads/adtech is unbounded, so why bound it to X per month. This greed? would probably lead them to ruins.

Why don't these companies just offer a paid version of their products? Giving people an opportunity to back out. E.g: Pay X per month to use Google and you get no ads or tracked. Y…

Naive question: If you preclude a politician from owning stocks, can't they execute such trades via an off-the-radar friend? And receive profits via "gifts". I imagine this is alre…

Thanks! It's questionable, but I think the idea is that ad tech makes ads more valuable? Ie a user gets something relevant to them. Maybe the future will be this personalization ha…

> Whether they are separate issues or not depends on the company. I don't understand this. At the end of the day they are separate things, probably you are saying a profit-seeking …

What alternatives to ads do you suggest? I don't see donations or paid services as a viable alternative (especially for people in emerging markets -- will companies still have any …

You are right that this is not a problem with design patterns themselve. It's how some people tend to use them when they are not necessary or a simpler solution would have sufficed…

I don't think other concerns are less important to "privacy" concerns. Each restriction just makes certain ideas/project impossible or less ideal [1]. Honestly as an Android dev, I…

I mean, if you really want it today, there are places in the world you could go to that have little to no internet access. Where people still communicate mostly in-person. (I'm onl…

True. But at least it happens for each compile per developer which is a far smaller number than for each use per end-user.

It could be OP is referring to multiple layers of (unnecessary) abstraction. In Android land for example, there is a popular "clean" 3 layer architecture, where model classes are b…

Not sure. I will just share my own personal experience. I live in Germany and I go to parks to freestyle with a soccer ball. My issue has always been dogs off lease interfering wit…

How does one learn to appreciate such things? I think my problem is: 1. Fiction: I think it is pointless. I try to watch fictional movies. 2. Information I feel is irrelevant: Say …