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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#:~:text=The%20Do%....
I fully understand that it's absence wouldn't meant that people won't get stabbed, but it would save time and mental space of all people like me who really don't care about being stabbed or not.
Honestly if anything, I'd like to be stabbed more.
By analogy to current situation about tracking ... Ad companies know too much about me? I think they know too little. For example for half a year they still haven't figured out that I know barely any words in German and are serving me German advertisements all the time just because I happen to be living in Germany currently.
This is such transparent EU Bureaucracy shilling. No wonder Europe doesn't have any large SaaS companies with their stabbing unfriendly business climate.
I think you are factually wrong: Skype, Spotify, Revolut, Zendesk, Transferwise... There are quite many European unicorns too (less though than US and Chinese companies) which are operating as SaaS. Some of them got acquired or re-based to other countries though
> because every company out there fucking hates you They don't actually hate you. Rather, they love your money and they have a depraved indifference for you.
No, they love the money they can make about you. I don’t know anybody giving their money to these people. It is other shady companies buying the data about for, shady companies that have collected. All of this is offered to you free of charge.
> it’s fucking depressing when even the fucking bare minimum form of regulation is followed to the letter and no more, because every company out there fucking hates you and would sell you out to make a bit more money if they legally could. and even if they couldn’t, who’s going to stop them? Certainly not any government. If you think the EU's regulation are of any help to the consumer you are gravely mistaken. The EU…
So the EU is bad because you can't learn to screw on a bottle cap that's different than before?
It’s great satire, but it really does mirror a larger societal shift where the burden of safeguarding personal autonomy has shifted from institutions/regulators to individual users. Do-Not-Stab, Do-Not-Track, whatever it might be, any sort of “voluntary compliance” is a non-starter in the face of financial pressures IMO we need to start normalizing being militant about this stuff again, to aggressively and adversaria…
However the EU dropped the ball by not making it mandatory to respect this flag. If they had we wouldn't have had the huge cookiewall mess we have now.
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I think you are factually wrong: Skype, Spotify, Revolut, Zendesk, Transferwise... There are quite many European unicorns too (less though than US and Chinese companies) which are operating as SaaS. Some of them got acquired or re-based to other countries though
Can confirm, got stabbed by a spammer on Skype yesterday.
Wouldn’t this header just be another bit of entropy used by companies that are going to stab you anyway?
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It's a difference of degree, not kind, which is how it became normalized.
The internet started with decentralized protocols like NNTP, so you could just choose a different news server if the one you were using started tracking + selling your download logs. Centralizing the serving of third party (or even first party) content is already way outside the original norms of the internet. Heck, back in the day, HTTP caching would be enough to block tracking. (No javascript, and only the ISP sees…
"Fools! I have invented a usb device which can collect votes from the Internet and drive a knife through your heart!"