mr_strange

@mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Malta. You just have to pay a (largish) fee, and they’ll have you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.

  What??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help @CountBinface@mastodon.world become Mayor of London.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Love me some Count Binface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here's a Way Out - WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So now every site has cringe popups that nobody reads or understands, thanks regulators!!

  It’s not the law that mandates the awful UI of those popups… it’s Google. I’m an adwords publisher, on my blog and a couple of (formerly!) popular web-apps. My sites were all compliant with the legislation, but not with Google’s policy for adwords publishers. Their algorithm sent me an e-mail threatening to cut off my income unless I implemented one of their “approved” cookie scripts. As any fool knows, it’s simply not possible to contact a real human at Google, so I was forced to do as they wished. So now all my sites have pointless, annoying cookie popups.

  Everyone hates those popups, but don’t blame the legislation - blame Google for forcing the whole Internet into malicious compliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just 9% of British voters think Brexit has gone well, poll finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The country needs more people. Locals are not having enough babies to cover that, and the world is full of fantastic other people who want to come here, and help make the place great. The only reason to turn them away is a toxic mix of short-sightedness and racism.