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Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by Vinnl »

resonanttoe wrote: post #44

This is slightly off topic and relatively minor, but man does it represent the piss poor state of Tech writers and their articles. "I was curious how often this go-to one liner was used. I scraped every reported notification to the California attorney general, a requirement under state law in the event of a breach or security lapse, stitched them together, and converted it into machine-readable text. About one-third…

When tech writers do that it's one thing, but this is unfortunately also the status quo among publicly funded researchers...

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by gnoack »

ckastner wrote: post #31
wirrbel wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just clicked through the links of that banner and I landed on https://www.oath.com/de/my-data/#protectingdata anyways, I will not read the article because I am sure these dialogs are built in a way to gain "consent" by trickery.

...and after landing on that page, you have to click through to the privacy Dashboard, where you can supposedly opt-out of individual partners. I say "supposedly", because the first partner I clicked on led me to the "I'm not a robot" captcha. After which I just closed the window. Guess I'll not read the article after all. How on earth they expect this to fly under the GDPR, expecially considering that "[t]hese partn…

I did the captcha, and the page greeted me with "an error occurred". Next click lead me back to the captcha step.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by dagurp »

kapep wrote: post #35
wirrbel wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just clicked through the links of that banner and I landed on https://www.oath.com/de/my-data/#protectingdata anyways, I will not read the article because I am sure these dialogs are built in a way to gain "consent" by trickery.

The dialogs are really confusing. 1st popup page: Some text about Oath with big "OK" button and same size "Manage Options" link. By clicking OK you agree to everything. 2nd popup page when clicking "Manage Options" link: Some more text about Oath with big "OK" button and tiny "Manage Options" link next to a headline. I have no idea what happens when I click OK here. Is the same as the "OK" button on the first page? I…

I went through the same process and I have no idea what I agreed to.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by dalbasal »

The ironies of reading articles about the pathologies of the 2019 digital economy are... well...

The publications where you might read about the problem are likely contributers to it.

From the EU, before you read about companies abusing your privacy you first go through their "consent" page, maliciously designed to prevent readers from preventing "the Oauth family" from giving whatever data they can get on you to advertisers.

Then you get to read the article:

"I’ve never understood exactly what it means when a company says it values my privacy. If that were the case, data hungry companies like Google and Facebook, which sell data about you to advertisers, wouldn’t even exist."

... TC's modus operandi & business model appears to be the same.

On many occasions I have read an article bemoaning fake news that was framed by "native ads," pretending to be articles, and promoting fake science (one wierd trick), apocalypse cults and worse.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by dkersten »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #45
dkersten wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Oath websites and Medium are on my mental blacklists of sites I simply don’t bother with. The content isn’t good enough to care. It does mean I hit comment threads like this and can’t read the article. Oh well, I’m trying to reduce my internet time anyway.

Yes, I could do with a plugin to strip links to Medium articles.

Yeah, I was actually trying to find something like this too... maybe its time I looked into how to write browser plugins myself, but I have too many other projects right now.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by foxes »

dalbasal wrote: post #54

The ironies of reading articles about the pathologies of the 2019 digital economy are... well... The publications where you might read about the problem are likely contributers to it. From the EU, before you read about companies abusing your privacy you first go through their "consent" page, maliciously designed to prevent readers from preventing "the Oauth family" from giving whatever data they can get on you to adv…

ublock origin reports 13 blocked requests on the very same page. This includes requests to facebook and google for tracking.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by megous »

dkersten wrote: post #55
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I could do with a plugin to strip links to Medium articles.

Yeah, I was actually trying to find something like this too... maybe its time I looked into how to write browser plugins myself, but I have too many other projects right now.

I have a HN filter userscript for this purpose:

  https://megous.com/dl/hn.js
If you filter most of the news websites, and other pointless crap, HN gets pretty technical again.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by swebs »

jannes wrote: post #20
emilis_info wrote: post #5

Also stop saying "Before you go further..." we need to share your data with tens of corporations. /s Note to non-EU users: Techcrunch is completely blocking the page with a popup asking me to share my location and behavioral data (for advertising purposes) with a probably very long list of companies (something called "Oath" family). The logos shown are for Yahoo, Aol, Autoblog, Huffpost and Engadget. Nah. I'll skip a…

Just disable 1st-party scripts and 3rd-party scripts in the uBlock Origin popup for techcrunch.com and that modal should not appear anymore. https://prnt.sc/mo26b4

If you disable everything except CSS and Images, you get an infinitely nicer site.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Post by winchling »

orlp wrote: post #46

You enter a coffee shop. Before you can do anything, the owner takes a photo of you, and grabs your hand to take your finger print. He quickly writes down the date, time and what clothes you are wearing. He gives you a smile as he starts his speech. "Before we continue, we at Coffee City want you to know we deeply value your privacy. We need your permission to store your information, improve your coffee experience, p…

The next time you stroll in he'll ask for your cellphone number. For security purposes. If you don't want to provide it now you'll have to tell him that you'll do so another time.
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