First of all, the European Data Protection Board have shown they are more than willing to throw their weight around issue large fines and request audits. Second of all, have you actually looked at the types of data data brokers buy and sell? Massive records of IPs, and metrics.

Like above what “amazing treasure trove of personal data” are you giving up by clicking “I Accept”. Search queries of the Plex Free Movie\TV library, watch times of the same free library and whether you click on pre, mid or post roll ads. And who is going to buy and sell this? Ad providers who swear they are providing targeted advertising, but really have quotas and metrics to fill. They will end up showing irrelevant ads anyway, not because of some algorithm, but literally because the advertising industry does not give two shits about click through rates just that ads get shown.

There’s so much bitching in this thread like someone from AdSense or Outbrain has personally murdered a family member, but the truth is, these places are a grift. Annoying, yes, but mostly harmless. Oh and don’t try to pull “oh but governments can use this for surveillance” yes they could but as someone who has held a job a federal level tax office, they do not have the budget for profiling people like this and a corrupt government has cheaper and better options.

I will try my best to respect your opinion and what you think a “right to privacy” means but I have great trouble understanding the paranoia

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation?wprov=sfla1

They legally can’t for European users

Like all companies complying with European data collection laws, they can’t collect your data and have to delete anything they have collected.

Remember that “Grapes of Wrath” completely backfired as a propaganda piece because Russians were amazed that poor Americans could still afford cars

It’s most amusing that most authors ended up retracting their support of the lawsuit

New York Times gonna blame this when he falls from a building in January

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Fun fact, the url in the original ad redirects to this video because the MPA couldn’t be bothered with the domain renewal

www.piracyisacrime.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn't_Steal_a_Car

Sounds like a pretty average day in the Linux community

Well, let me start with this gorilla they called Harambe…

OH HEY EVERYONE, EVERYONE, THIS GUY LIKES JSON

Fuck you and your unstructured garbage.

I remember this being discussed at length on various forums at the time (the legality, questions about what would happen if it all fell into the sea.) but as with so much of the Internet, it appears to have been largely lost. Luckily I was not imagining things this time and did find a couple of references.

Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation | Ars Technica

The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealand * TorrentFreak

Remember when they tried to buy Sealand?

Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.

Brocollini is a licensed trademark

“One More Lane Bro is the only option, I checked, and it should be subsidised by NYT who make too much money.” - Robert Moses

I also hope we move away from coal, but if environmentalists are hell bent on getting a bunch of Dell monitors and a few keyboards in a museum hit me up.

Isn’t this better to understand about what the program is trying to do, which a user really only has a passing influence on