Seriously. I see comments like this all the time but no examples.

Just the idea that a developer would care so much to create something like “If user doesn’t consent, ruin their experience”.

Wouldn’t really matter for most sites hosted in America. American businesses do not have to comply unless they have EU customers.

International sites like YouTube absolutely has some system that will switch the cookie tracking depending on geo location, from CCPA to GDPR.

But American sites don’t really gaf. Small News site in America, unless they’re paying for a fancy Cookie Consent Management tool, is doing it the US way and it’s opt out, regardless of where you’re coming from.

For example: if Kansas News site gets a warning from the EU about cookies, they’re not going to care. They don’t have the budget, and honestly, easier to just block all IPs from outside the US.

If you hate this, stop using American products and services. (And I say this as a privacy concerned American)

I saw a meme about sound cards recently and thousands of likes on social media.

And I wonder if it’s people up voting because they remember that era, if it’s bots, or if it’s just people who kinda get the joke and don’t want to be left out?

In the US, it’s the opposite. The way the law is written, you have to OPT out. So they’re collecting the moment you land.

I’ve set up a bunch of these cookie banners for US businesses. You can choose if you follow the EU version, or the CCPA version.

Absolutely this.

2010s was a wild west of downloading multi pack codecs BS. Just let me play the video!

Just joined tuta a week ago from jumping ship out of Proton. They had a pretty nice sale going on.

When I emailed their support team about this, they went real fucking weird on the response.

They linked to that medium post too. They linked to a random Reddit post.

They said things like, “He can’t be racist”, which is fucking weird because I was pointing out that I don’t want a company that focuses on privacy to be licking the boot of any government. Which is extra strange they didn’t bring that up at all.

Proton and their whole company is suspicious as fuck. I absolutely believe if their company starts to flounder financially, they’re going to sell access - no question.

This bothers me more than it should.

Shoddy writeups quickly inject reference links just to make their page look more trustworthy and SEO-friendly, while also not actually READING the links they add.

I feel old because I remember when this conversation was happening with airbrushing photographs and then Photoshop.

And now these days, really good Photoshop is invisible. We can remove people from backgrounds. We can improve the lighting. Movie CGI is just photoshooting stills.

AI will reach that stage too, where it will be so good, it’s scary that you can’t tell.

And maybe we need that. We’ve been blessed with delicious bananas too easily for two long.

24 hour news is to blame.

You can’t have one story anymore. You need to turn it into like 20 stories. Which means that one story, but the perspective of every single other person. The CEO, the Janitor, Ja Rule, everyone.

I am currently stealing Amazon streaming from my neighbor, who let me use it. It’s full of ads now.

Can’t even watch Invincible without 8 minutes of ads.

Easier to just pirate.

But how will I know if I’m rich or poor without a nasdaq score telling me how the rich are feeling?

Pizza place near me has ranch pizza at discount for $1.

I thought I was getting a deal and then promptly threw it away.

I saw this at my local brewery.

A bunch of bachelorettes with their penis straws and hats with SLUT in LEDs were having a fun time in the corner while some parents with their 8yo kids running circles around their table were also at the same brewery. Random guy in a trench coat with his giant dog. Nerd on his apple laptop.

Nobody was acting a fool or making a scene. But it was a strange moment.

My apartment has motion censor faucets.

I live in a nightmare.

It’s all around us. Easier to remove the carbon based life forms.

Unless it was part of it, multiple levels of packaging.

Open up a bag of chips. It’s bag, then chips. Perfect world.

Open up a box of cookies from hell. Open up the box. Open up the freshness seal bag. Pull out the individually wrapped cookies, and open those too.

Straight to jail. No question.

Was a kid in the late 1980s. I never realized how bad smoking was.

My mom hated going out to dinner, so we never ever went. And when I took her to dinner to celebrate in the 2000s, she pulled me aside and cried about not wanting to smell like cigarettes, because her dad smoked and the smell would remind her of him/his abuse. Smoking was already banned and I had to make so many promises that we won’t go anywhere with smoking.

Been on Ubuntu for years. Only use it for general computer work. Works just fine.

Am I stupid?