Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly countries also fight corporations for power. GAFAM have been to threat to the powers in place and it’s essentially a survival match. Countries do spy on their own citizens that’s not news. Internet is a great tool for that.

  What we are seeing is probably european countries trying to get rid of GAFAM and puting their own measures in place instead to fill the void, the void being the services, the information, the data the GAFAM were providing to said countries.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    GAFAM

    GAFAM is an acronym that refers to five major US technology companies: Google (now Alphabet), Apple, Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, and Microsoft.

    Looked it up so no one else had to!

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So the acronym is now AMAMA!

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    • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess the new acronym should be MAAAM

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      • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        US used to call it FAANG (but then there’s been a bunch of renames)

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      • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I prefer AMAMA.

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    • Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The good old French acronym XD

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• nivenkos@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Germany, progressive? Have you ever lived there? I’m amazed they even use web browsers enough to notice now, compared to their fax machines.

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  • Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Health care here still uses fax machines.

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