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TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months agoWhich was irrelevant.
The user had commented that they didn’t want to sign up to browse content and then they further clarified that making a comment was worth signing up for sometimes.
But for some reason you are insisting the context doesn’t matter? Either signup is always good or bad, we have to choose?
phillaholic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Overall I’m just tired of hearing how _____ is going to ruin the web, or how evangelical people get about not doing something on principle. Sites that “login-wall” their content aren’t going to succeed, but people refusing to create an account acting all doom and gloom are getting to be insufferable.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the user just stated an opinion. you still didn’t explain why the context didn’t matter to you. sounds like you’re one of those people who is annoyed by principals. maybe Lemmy is not for you.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You may be right about the last point. My feed is full of posts from three days ago, talk of cutting off parts of the fediverse that seems to be the antithesis of federation, and other evangelical stances that are abandoned the second consequences come up. It was amusing at first, but it’s starting to seem like a waste of time. Idk.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So what you’re saying is that people have to weigh pros and cons and they aren’t binary thinkers like you. Great job buddy
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not doom and gloom, I think this is a good step in the right direction.
Users should be able to control what websites have access to their data and a sign in process achieves that. Only sign into a site if you are happy with the website’s privacy policy. There are some websites where I will sign in - I have an account on this website because it has in the privacy policy:
The thing that offends me the most about tracking across the internet is you are tracked wether you agree to a website’s privacy policy or not. Usually you can’t even read the privacy policy without being tracked unless a website complies with the GDPR and most websites do not.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Write your congress person to enact a GDPR-like Bill. Short of that, as you’ve said, idk how sites are going to make money. The current situation is majorly self-inflicted. We don’t want to pay, so they have ads. We don’t want to see ads, so they collect and sell data. Now that VC money has dried up, it’s going to get worse and there’s no other answer.