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Cake day: August 20th, 2023
  • rothaine@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.
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    13 days ago

    ask permission to invade your privacy

    I am not an expert in this area nor am I a lawyer, but I don’t think that’s the case; cookie banners are needed even for fairly standard functionality, not just the “we want to share your data with our 450 advertising partners” insanity sites. I remember seeing a long argument on reddit about whether you need a banner to be able to store user preferences (eg preferred language), and I believe the conclusion was yes, the law says you do, because it’s stored in the user’s device.

    Or even just simple analytics. If the JavaScript on a website is throwing errors for users of a specific version of Firefox, then of course it would be good for the operator of the site to know that. There’s nothing nefarious about it. (I think there are ways around cookie banners for this sort of thing, since it can be considered “essential”, but you have to roll your own – using any pre-made service is a “third party” and necessitates the banner. So that makes actually doing this in a compliant way much more difficult.)

    I think a real life equivalent would be if you walked into a store and there was a guy at the entrance like “By the way, we have cameras!” Like yeah no shit a retail space has cameras; leave me alone.

    And of course, the actual consequence of this is that everyone is completely desensitized to cookie banners and doesn’t even read what they say. Many users just snap-click “ok” or “agree” or whatever button is to the right to make the annoying thing disappear. Or use browser extensions to try to make them go away completely. They have become completely useless.

    Thinking of the camera analogy again, some places like Target and Walmart have camera systems as advanced as casinos’, using facial recognition and tracking as you go throughout the store. Allegedly they can even use body language to determine which products pique your interest so they can better advertise to you. Ok so yeah, wtf is even that, maybe I do want a nagging guy at the door so I can opt out of that bullshit. But if every store has a nagging entrance man, then that case isn’t distinguishable from the regular mom-and-pop trying to prevent theft! So again, useless.

  • rothaine@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Carcinisation?
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    2 months ago

    Hey there 👋, I know you mean well by that comment, like I get it, I do. ☺️ But I just wanted to let you know:

    THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO STUDIES DONE ON THE SAFETY OF CRAB TRAINS.

    ZERO.

    But despite that, they are gaining widespread support, and now even people like yourself are calling them “optimal.”

    Listen: Someone I know lost an arm in the pincer mechanism of one of these trains. More work needs to be done before we can consider them safe, nevermind “optimal”. Don’t buy into the techbro BS.

    Friends don’t let friends crab train.