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by neiman 6y ago
As an extension developer, this is highly frustrated. Mozilla already broke our extension (Almonit extension) in browser a few weeks ago, when they changed default behaviour unannounced, without supplying (yet) an alternative solution. We a
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by neiman 6y ago
Syncing and analytics are not identical, sorry.
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by neiman 6y ago
Encrypted between me and Amazon (such that Amazon could see the content), or encrypted between my devices such that Amazon can't see the content (but only the encrypted form)?
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by neiman 6y ago
Oh my god, I didn't know they're still releasing those! <silly joke warning>
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by neiman 6y ago
The video is about synch, while the conversation is about "collection does lead to better products" -> i.e, analytics.
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by neiman 6y ago
This I wrote. I didn't write "companies should loudly advertise something people don’t care about" -> you added something to my sentence, taking it out of context. I wrote my opinion already, but I'll repeat it anyway
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by neiman 6y ago
What? I didn't say I don't recognize the reality. I said I don't accept it as normal, meaning I work trying to change it.
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by neiman 6y ago
I wish I'd knew:-)
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by neiman 6y ago
If I can't think of a way to abuse me by having my data, it doesn't mean that someone else doesn't. I would really rather avoid all this discussion by them not having my data to begin with.
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by neiman 6y ago
Of course I'm not surprised, but I refuse to accept this as normal.
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by neiman 6y ago
> You think companies should loudly advertise something people don’t care about? It's not what I said.
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by neiman 6y ago
> Privacy LARPers are a tiny segment of the market, the average person doesn’t really care if their ‘usage of the highlighter function is tracked’ If so, why don't they loudly advertise the data collection and do it only with opt-in
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by neiman 6y ago
Can't you do lost of those things by sending encrypted data to Amazon, and getting back the encrypted data from them? They act as a storage in most cases, not as a server, no?
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by neiman 6y ago
Very different things.
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by neiman 6y ago
If I would have known that by buying Kindle I end up working for Amazon, I indeed wouldn't have bought one. It's deception. Please put on the box a big warning, "THIS DEVICE COLLECTS YOUR DATA", similar to those on cigar
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by neiman 6y ago
> don't seem particularly invasive to me, and collecting that data seems perfectly appropriate for the purposes you mentioned. Fine. So you allow them to collect it. However, don't decide for others if it's "invasive&
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by neiman 6y ago
As a freedom-concerned citizen, I always completely understood the policies and methodology of dictators and tyrants, and how what they do is useful for them.
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by neiman 6y ago
How does it make a difference? First, if an entity want my input and are going to use it, they should be decent enough to pay me for giving it. Why do users need to work for free for Amazon? Second, is it opt-in? If not, then there's a
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by neiman 6y ago
No. What he described is not a poll.
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by neiman 6y ago
This points a difference between Internet public discussions an private interactions discussions. In private interactions, either chatting or RL, I quote "facts" without references, discuss papers I never read, and in general do t
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by neiman 6y ago
To be fair, I'd make it a point to comment and not mention bananas if I saw such a request. Why? don't look for reason while analyzing the behaviour of the average internet user:-)
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by neiman 6y ago
No, read again.
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by neiman 6y ago
Then the ones who don't want to help a disabled person, can design their place to be accessible without help (and perhaps at the same time explain their motivations so that I'll know to never visit their venue). In other words, yo
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by neiman 6y ago
> completely inaccessible to the mobility-disabled? Completely inaccessible to a mobility-disabled person without help. However, I live in one of those European cities that has kind of quirky small places, sometimes inaccessible to a m
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by neiman 6y ago
> every time I go to Europe Seems to me you go to only a specific part of Europe, i.e., central Europe. I live in Europe and spend the last 3 years traveling/working around it. It is not one entity, and cellular infrastructure in on
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by neiman 6y ago
I meant 'force' as in "coercion or compulsion". > I think we should be careful with our words I agree, but this goes both ways. So first, you shouldn't assume I didn't mean a word I choose to use just becaus
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by neiman 6y ago
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/06/03/google-p...
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by neiman 6y ago
I just want to have a place where I can tick, "Google, please never ever collect any of my data". But I don't have such a thing, not because it's impossible to create one.
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by neiman 6y ago
I put an ENORMOUS amount of effort not to have Google involved in my life and for them not to have ANY of my data, and I constantly find myself failing. So yes, I feel it's fair to call it stealing my data.
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by neiman 6y ago
> Google evil etc etc aside, they have been decent custodians of their users data. They've been decent custodians to data they force users to give. It's like complimenting whoever stole my bike last year for taking good care

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