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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (2 children)

WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY!*

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

[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We value your privacy. We're selling it.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago

797 partners? Might need to get tested haha

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

this could be its own twilight zone episode

fuck

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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 ([email protected]): https://rentry.co/megathread-music#free-mp3-download

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

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

Me and my 718 closest friends will be there..

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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'.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I guess 'Reject All' means just 'reject all of the above', and there are are additional terms that are binding, they just spared you from handling those with this popup, or why is that kind of thing legal?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

"We valuated your privacy", more like

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Consent-o-matic automates that for you

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

They do value your privacy very expensively!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

They spelled "violate" wrong.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The correct syntax for embedding images is:

![title](link)

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That's why F-Droid exists.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's Outlook trying to be like Facebook

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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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