Yes, though it was unclear if that was a feature or a bug. Since their dev team was decimated, the site has been struggling to even do basic maintenance and security updates.
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athos77@kbin.social 11 months agoDidn't they also remove some of the things that indicated a post was "sponsored" or whatever?
Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 11 months ago
morriscox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I remember when Circuit City fired the employees that was costing them the most money, which turned out to be their sales force. sfgate.com/…/Lessons-in-how-Circuit-City-s-job-cu…
They eventually went bankrupt.
SevFTW@feddit.de 11 months ago
Pretty sure that’s illegal under EU law
echolomaniac@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Something being illegal under EU law is used as an ace in the hole for some reason. These multi-billion companies will pay the fines in the EU and continue operating. On the off chance they roll back these changes in the EU, they’ll keep using them in the US, China, Russia, wherever.
Only thing that’ll stop this is global laws against it, which is impossible because of bribery. Oh sorry, lobbying.
Womble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Eh, not really. Some of the EU laws have serious teeth, there’s good reason why pretty much all big tech companies ensure they are GDPR compliant. It doesn’t matter how big you are being fined up to 4% of annual turnover is no joke to anyone.