Firefox has made great strides recently to increase privacy features. You can't possibly expect them to implement all of them immediately. Especially at the speed these crazy people are finding ways to abuse every last source they can to harvest our data.
>Companies that embed Facebook’s “Like” button on their websites must seek users’ consent to transfer their personal data to the U.S. social network, in line with the bloc’s data privacy laws, Europe’s top court said on Monday.
Reality:
*nothing changes*
It's not about profit, it's about personal and consumer rights. Tech companies proved they can't regulate themselves, they got too greedy and have abused their large power for too long, forming monopolies in their respective fields. EU is protecting its citizens....what else would you expect from your government...
EU is pro tech, such as FOSS and crypto scenes, not money and data grabbing, monopolistic lawless bandits.
If they played by the rules they wouldn't get fucked. Can you show me where the retro active part comes in?
Case in point: What rules? No one has well-established rules for this. And even when rules are extended to cover the activities these companies take, it has been exclusively at the expensive of American companies.
And listen, as an aside, this isn’t some America the Beautiful rant that I’m trying to push. America is also scummy (see War w/ China for dominance over future tech infrastructure vis a vi Huawei).
And yes, I’ll pull up the cases and show you the laws the EU highlights it’s applying (not sarcasm they’re long briefs). You will see that what they do is take an old law, which does not apply to digital sales, recognition of revenue, or privacy and extends its meaning to apply to it. It’s like if I say you cannot eat meat in my house but then you bring over and eat The Impossible Burger. It’s not really meat but it intends to be meat-like without being actual meat. And I think tell you that you’ve broken my rules.
I think that's fair (personally). If you wanna be lucrative and slide in "innovation" and "disruption" into your technology company, do it where it's basically lawless and the citizens get screwed.
If you want to be a bit more conservative, not tread in untrodden ground, and not go for the unicorn, but play within societal norms, play and do tech in the EU. Not like this is a new concept, you're right, that's why EU doesn't have any tech giants, it's a more level playing field, citizens are less susceptible to exploitation.
I don't want to go ahead of myself and downvote and rant I want to see it from your side. Can link those briefs? Might want to check it to make sure EU isn't playing us. In this digital age we can't really trust anyone and since EU made laws to protect our privacy it kind of gave us hope that privacy isn't dead yet.
> innovative practices.
Well, thats a good joke. What innovative practices are you referring to exactly? The 'like' button? Having button on websites? Linking? Please do tell what innovation FB has created.
Would this also work for Google and ReCAPTCHA?
Someone needs to make EU pay attention to recaptcha.
Possibly, since it is also an embeddable element.
# Use privacy badger or facebook containers in Firefox
Thanks, didn't know about it
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Firefox has made great strides recently to increase privacy features. You can't possibly expect them to implement all of them immediately. Especially at the speed these crazy people are finding ways to abuse every last source they can to harvest our data.
>Companies that embed Facebook’s “Like” button on their websites must seek users’ consent to transfer their personal data to the U.S. social network, in line with the bloc’s data privacy laws, Europe’s top court said on Monday. Reality: *nothing changes*
Reminder that if you use Firefox, to install the Facebook Container extension to somewhat mitigate embeddable Facebook elements.
How about just blocking it?
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Yup. What’s your point?
It's not about profit, it's about personal and consumer rights. Tech companies proved they can't regulate themselves, they got too greedy and have abused their large power for too long, forming monopolies in their respective fields. EU is protecting its citizens....what else would you expect from your government...
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EU is pro tech, such as FOSS and crypto scenes, not money and data grabbing, monopolistic lawless bandits. If they played by the rules they wouldn't get fucked. Can you show me where the retro active part comes in?
Case in point: What rules? No one has well-established rules for this. And even when rules are extended to cover the activities these companies take, it has been exclusively at the expensive of American companies. And listen, as an aside, this isn’t some America the Beautiful rant that I’m trying to push. America is also scummy (see War w/ China for dominance over future tech infrastructure vis a vi Huawei). And yes, I’ll pull up the cases and show you the laws the EU highlights it’s applying (not sarcasm they’re long briefs). You will see that what they do is take an old law, which does not apply to digital sales, recognition of revenue, or privacy and extends its meaning to apply to it. It’s like if I say you cannot eat meat in my house but then you bring over and eat The Impossible Burger. It’s not really meat but it intends to be meat-like without being actual meat. And I think tell you that you’ve broken my rules.
I think that's fair (personally). If you wanna be lucrative and slide in "innovation" and "disruption" into your technology company, do it where it's basically lawless and the citizens get screwed. If you want to be a bit more conservative, not tread in untrodden ground, and not go for the unicorn, but play within societal norms, play and do tech in the EU. Not like this is a new concept, you're right, that's why EU doesn't have any tech giants, it's a more level playing field, citizens are less susceptible to exploitation.
I don't want to go ahead of myself and downvote and rant I want to see it from your side. Can link those briefs? Might want to check it to make sure EU isn't playing us. In this digital age we can't really trust anyone and since EU made laws to protect our privacy it kind of gave us hope that privacy isn't dead yet.
EU has a fairly large tech sector, Germany is a telecoms hub
When embedding a Facebook Like button into your page is considered an "innovative practice"......
> innovative practices. Well, thats a good joke. What innovative practices are you referring to exactly? The 'like' button? Having button on websites? Linking? Please do tell what innovation FB has created.
> innovative practices Like new and clever ways to profit off people's data unethically and without consent?