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No thank you (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by misterwu@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 77 points 9 months ago

WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY!*

^*no^ ^we^ ^don't.^ ^not^ ^even^ ^a^ ^little.^

[-] _danny@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago

No, I think they're being literal. There is value that they want in your privacy.

[-] h3ndrik@feddit.de 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
  • We value your privacy (in a twisted way)
  • Our company's value (increases with access to) your privacy

Or the idea of the title and text was to create a paradox like: The following statement is true. // The preceding statement is false.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago

We value your privacy. We're selling it.

[-] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago
[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago

797 partners? Might need to get tested haha

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 50 points 9 months ago

whoever put that "reject all"s are mandatory should be getting praised.

it would suck to individually reject those 797 "partners".

[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This button doesn't often work as you'd expect. Websites/Apps can (and do) still approve so called "legitimate interest" option. The only way to be sure is to click "manage preferences" and dig in to check if legitimate interest is enabled. Sometimes you'll see "object all" in there, but some websites require to manually disable legitimate interest for each of the hundreds of partners manually.

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 14 points 9 months ago

this could be its own twilight zone episode

fuck

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Recently a pirate website for music, free-mp3-download.net got updated with this crap included. You have to toggle it off every time. All vendors separately. I took a stopwatch, it takes me around 2 minutes and 50 seconds.

Sounds friendly.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

To be fair, free-mp3-download.net is not a URL I would voluntarily go to. I mean seriously...

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

I don't judge by domain names.

It's also listed in the top 2 at FMHY: https://fmhy.net/audiopiracyguide#download-sites
And best site at DB0 megathread (!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com): https://rentry.co/megathread-music#free-mp3-download

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Give me your wallet! Can't refuse, I have a legitimate interest

[-] tslnox@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

I hate this. There is nothing legitimate about it. It's one of the biggest insults anyone ever gave me.

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[-] muelltonne@feddit.de 26 points 9 months ago

There will be some lawsuit in the future somewhere in Europe. And the judge will rightfully rule that you can't get an "informed consent" from your users for 800 tracking companies just by letting them click a button with dark patterns.

[-] BobGnarley@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Europe for sure. USA? Better chance of the president smoking rock at the state of the union. Land of the fee and all that.

[-] kryllic@programming.dev 26 points 9 months ago

"We respect your privacy to the extent the law requires us to. Maybe."

I respect that you want it to be a small birthday party.

Me and my 718 closest friends will be there..

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

Anything ran by Microsoft is a privacy concern (includes Windows, Teams, npm, GitHub)

[-] critical@reddthat.com 11 points 9 months ago
[-] Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 9 months ago
[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Yup. It’s privately held, not a community or non-profit-held registry.

[-] dopeshark@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

"We value your privacy". Proceeds to not value any kind of privacy at all

[-] lockhart@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago

"We valuated your privacy", more like

[-] h3ndrik@feddit.de 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

At least they are (forced to be) honest ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I like the rest of the wording, too. They'd like to process arbitrary data from the device. And third parties act out of their own motivation as long as it is their legitimate interest...

Use 'REJECT ALL'.

[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

REJECT ALL button doesn't often work as you'd expect. Websites/Apps can (and do) still approve so called "legitimate interest" option. The only way to be sure is to click "manage preferences" and dig in to check if legitimate interest is enabled. Sometimes you'll see "object all" in there, but you will find notice that some websites require to manually disable legitimate interest for each of the hundreds of partners manually.

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Hehe, keep up spreading that important info 💪✌️. Most people aren't aware and this practice should be illegal. Reject ALL... Every word they say is just a fucking lie.

[-] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That's why I reject all in Firefox settings along with wiping everything at close

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

What's worse is when it's accept all or manage preferences, and you manually have to turn off cookies for all 718 partners individually, every time you open the app.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

Consent-o-matic automates that for you

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[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

They do value your privacy very expensively!

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 9 months ago

They do infact value your privacy. Only to them it is of low value

[-] Breve@pawb.social 12 points 9 months ago

They spelled "violate" wrong.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The correct syntax for embedding images is:

![title](link)

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[-] King@lemy.lol 10 points 9 months ago

Use Fairmail/ K-9 mail instead.

[-] majestic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Even better ~~skiff~~, protonmail, tuta

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 points 9 months ago

I'd say they're not lying. They do value your privacy. It's making them, and 797 of their closest friends, a lot of money.

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

That's why F-Droid exists.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

"If you have to ask, you do not respect my privacy"

[-] majestic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Imagine applying to private university and reading their privacy policy, where they clearly say, how they get your private information from third parties and share all info with third parties. And when you ask administrator, how can i prevent them from doing that, they say, that they do not share/get info from/to thirdparties. Bravo

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[-] clever_banana@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago

Please dont post pictures of text without linking to the source or transcribing it. Blind folks can't read it.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Genuine question, can screen readers not parse image text in 2024? I personally use some image text to text copy programs on Linux to help speed up my development workflow, so it seems good screen readers have already had this for years?

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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago
[-] ashtrix@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

It's Outlook trying to be like Facebook

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I guess I appreciate that there's a "reject all" button and it's not grayed out... Not sure if it's because they were required to not hide it, though.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The only reason they're even asking is because they're required to.

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