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Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by tialaramex »

masfuerte wrote: post #47
VonGallifrey wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> HN blatantly doesn't comply What about HN doesn't comply with GDPR? It does not seem to have tracking cookies.

Apparently they won't delete your old comments if you ask them to. I'm someone who goes to somewhat absurd lengths to avoid tracking, but HN's policy doesn't bother me because I know the data exists elsewhere and deleting it here won't make a jot of difference to that.

I'm not entirely sure they'd need to comply. The question is what the purpose of the data being collected was, but seems to me that if you emphasise the whole idea that this is a conversation (which HN does in several ways) then actually "We don't delete comments" is defensible.

If I'm reading a thread about a problem I'm having in a video game on Reddit and it goes "This is very frustrating because I can't get a rabbit to teleport", then a reply which is [deleted] and then "Oh! Thanks so much, I'd never have figured that out" I'm in exactly the same place as the original poster, but now with the additional agony of knowing that there was a correct solution and that it's hard to figure out what it is - ugh.

Re: Don't Wordle

#52

Post by f2474l »

lucideer wrote: post #34

I tried playing this as if its wordle & got it in 2 guesses. How do they do this ??? That's next to impossible in wordle & the probalities seem like they should be the same?

The game is cheating I guess

Re: Don't Wordle

#53

Post by mh- »

lugao wrote: post #16
theanonymousone wrote: post #12

I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?

Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?

Just the trademark, that I've seen.

Re: Don't Wordle

#54

Post by inigyou »

tialaramex wrote: post #51
masfuerte wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently they won't delete your old comments if you ask them to. I'm someone who goes to somewhat absurd lengths to avoid tracking, but HN's policy doesn't bother me because I know the data exists elsewhere and deleting it here won't make a jot of difference to that.

I'm not entirely sure they'd need to comply. The question is what the purpose of the data being collected was, but seems to me that if you emphasise the whole idea that this is a conversation (which HN does in several ways) then actually "We don't delete comments" is defensible. If I'm reading a thread about a problem I'm having in a video game on Reddit and it goes "This is very frustrating because I can't get a rab…

Right to be forgotten is part of GDPR even though most people only think of cookie banners. There's no one-click export, either.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by wlesieutre »

Angostura wrote: post #24

If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors

Only hundreds? I ended up on Thingiverse by accident yesterday it’s

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Re: Don't Wordle

#58

Post by teach »

HelloUsername wrote: post #55

(Un)related; does anyone know where to play the non-NYT Wordle version?

The original version of Wordle was purchased by the NYT and then Josh took down his copy, so there's no canonical "non-NYT" version anymore.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by coldpie »

Angostura wrote: post #24

If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors

It's your browser's job to protect you, not the website's. There's no guarantee that a "reject all" button does anything, anyway. Instead, just dismiss the banner however and clear the site's cookies in the browser when you're done. On Firefox, you can clear your cookies in 3 clicks, use the little button on the left side of the URL bar and hit "Clear cookies and site data" and then Confirm.
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