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Thank you. The one that always bugs me on HN is folks “pouring” over something when they really mean poring, or to pore over something.
I don't think I've ever seen that one done correctly.
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I read this once: There are two kinds of people: those who want to make the world a better place and those who want to make enough money to afford to not care.
those who believe the above are mutually exclusive, and those who develop social infrastructure
I really hope the fog will lift one day and you'll see the actual impact of facebook (and others), here's one example https://www.afterbabel.com/p/international-mental-illness-pa...
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> Since running a business costs money They should charge a fair price for their product and deliver something good to customers. No one is forcing Facebook to not charge for their service. They just can’t do it without slurping your data. If they can’t have a business without invading people’s privacy, they shouldn’t have a business. It is baffling that people still shill these practices from big corporations. It’s…
There is the option to pay for Instagram (and probably also Facebook I assume, but not sure) instead of sharing your data in the EU. https://glamsham.com/world/technology/meta-faces-new-eu-comp...
> This is illegal, as the GDPR clearly states that withdrawing your consent must be “as easy as” giving it.
The whole point of the article and this discussion is precisely that you can’t make privacy protections a separate “feature”.
I also applaud this and personally would prefer to just pay for services instead of being the product, but I'm afraid this is not a popular opinion. People don't want to pay, at least not knowingly. I'm curious how this will play out.
The personal data of a user who pays is more valuable than that of a user who doesn't pay ;)
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Do you mean NOYB? Aren't they a team?
That ONE person out of 300m in the EU bothered to chase this topic.
In this case, it's specifically that not all DPAs are doing their job correctly: some due to understaffing, others arguably due to ideological reasons.
I partially blame the GDPR itself - I still stand behind the spirit of that law, but it's IMHO not strict enough (or has too many loopholes): I think the selling of personal data to third parties should have been banned outright.
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I read this once: There are two kinds of people: those who want to make the world a better place and those who want to make enough money to afford to not care.
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I read this once: There are two kinds of people: those who want to make the world a better place and those who want to make enough money to afford to not care.
"naive", and "realistic", respectively.
Of course it does. I have noo idea what happens if I press "Save settings" on all these cookie banners. Pretty sure somewhere there is a hidden checkbox that allows everything. It probably still tracks, just makes you happy reading the giant popup list. They invented "essential cookies for marketing purposes" anyway. And after there was this "You accept tracking ads or you pay to us" popup.
Similar issue with Reddit's privacy "settings" last I checked. I'd uncheck everything. Then I'd go back. Some stayed unchecked. Some didn't. Go figure.
I haven't touched Instagram since they offered this ultimatum. Hopefully I can wait it out. The only reason I might have needed to use it would be to reach people whose contact I only have on there.
At least the group who did show up "blamed"* the host for only inviting to the event via FB, which I see as a massively positive sign of the culture slowly changing
*Not in a negative way, but in a "what did you expect, only inviting people via facebook" kinda way