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I know for a fact at least 1 bigger US company has a bot in slack that brings up any mentions of $companyname on hackernews...

Most likely, it's for tracking reasons. To figure out what sections people hit more and less... I agree with you though. It's sad that content is being reformulated for those reaso…

yes, that's a possibility, but we're far from server-side GA implementations and we do have an option to make a data request to figure out what companies are doing. If they get cau…

Sorry. They do wait and force a choice before loading the external scripts. That's the only mechanism one can use to really be compliant as GA (and other providers) stick identifie…

It took a while, but is starting to work. Many "cookie banners" have finally started to work in the EU. Once you deny PII processing many sites don't load GA etc... The time of mal…

As I understand, these "data safety" sections are what Google gives app owners to comply with "right to be informed". If they say "we're sharing location data with third parties fo…

Just a few days ago, they updated their android application info and stated they're going to share location data with third parties for "Advertising or Marketing" purposes...[1] Th…

There's a choice between first party(collected) and third party(shared). Also a list of purposes one chooses from. This could include "App functionality", "Analytics", "Account man…

I wish that was the case. Opening the "data safety" section another pop-up[1] comes up and the specific use-cases listed are "advertising or marketing" and "personalisation". [1] -…

Today i got a notification on my phone, that firefox is changing how it handles my location data and that it might be shared with third parties[1]. This update is yet to be include…

4.0 will remove the expiration requirement finally.

using a cookie that is essential for non-essential purposes, is not allowed. So using a load-balancer cookie is fine, as long as it's only used for load balancing. Once it's used f…

Not coming from the ePrivacy directive. It comes from GDPR and consent basis. GDPR Article 7, 3, conditions for consent. > It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent. https…

I'm pretty sure these submissions are related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27558500#27558758

firefox supports ublock origin on android :)

there's a transition period. We can't start enforcement with the maximum available penalties. If the lower don't suffice, we will get closer & closer to the maximum.

According to this[0] iphone 13 mini is 5.4" and according to the OP new SE is 4.7" 0 - https://www.apple.com/iphone-13/

if anyone knows good android alternatives for a smaller smartphone (something like sony xperia compact series) I'd love to hear about it. Currently, it seems like the iphone SE is …

Extended reading on how the EU regulators are tackling it(OpenRTB) through GDPR. https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rules-that-iab-europe... https://www.gegevensbeschermingsaut…

Anything that can be reliably identified across multiple websites can be blocked. So here we'd just block "tag manager web container" no?

> in practice if each small business were expected to audit every one of their inputs, it would be hard to get any business done. While I agree, that a full audit would be difficul…

Atleast in my country, to send legitimate marketing e-mails, a user has to be given a choice to opt-out *before* the first e-mail. So it's not enough to allow them to opt-out with …