Comment on Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch
ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 9 months agoUnfortunately, when we sign up to their EULAs we “willingly” give everything up… So technically it ends up being legally theirs 🥺
Diotima@kbin.social 9 months ago
Not quite, but pretty close. You still hold copyrights in anything protected by copyright for example. They just have a perpetual license to use your work. We really ought to be working on laws to protect privacy and limit corp content piracy without explicitly clear opt-ins.
SteefLem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe we should charge them for emails they send us. Want me to sign up for a news letter, that will be 20€ per email. Or something.
Diotima@kbin.social 9 months ago
Back in the paper spam days, some folk would stuff the "postage paid" envelopes with junk and mail them back to troll the companies. Setting up a junk address with an autoresponder would be pleasing, but probably would get tagged illegal.
SteefLem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Shame, its legal when big corp does it but illegal when I do it. This always seems weird to me.