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by ratww 5y ago
Every other month I see old products going from "disposable" to "with deposit". So I don't think so. The latest for me were the tiny juice bottles from Rewe. 25c Pfand.
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by ratww 5y ago
> Weird side-effect: homeless people might ask for your empty bottle and do the collection. Not sure how I feel about that though… That's kind of convenient actually IMO. I get rid of the bottle, I don't have to give them cas
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by ratww 5y ago
Gotcha. FYI, the post you replied to suggested "make browsers have a proper cookie banner", which seems like you agree with? The one that says "disable third party cookies" was two levels above your post.
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by ratww 5y ago
Microsoft Teams and some Atlassian products also fail when third-party cookies are disabled. You have to activate them for the login but you can deactivate afterwards.
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by ratww 5y ago
Funny thing is that Internet Explorer used to have these banners. But users started disabling them and accepting the cookies when they got too annoying.
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by ratww 5y ago
They are not forced by law, they are actually entirely unnecessary, and the ones nagging you are probably not following the law, since GDPR says that saying "No" should be as easy as saying "Yes". There is a way to short
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by ratww 5y ago
GDPR doesn't say anything about cookies other than in examples. Fingerprinting, identification via IP, localStorage, all are equivalent under it. "Cookie Banner" is an industry term, which is incorrect.
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by ratww 5y ago
For GDPR both localStorage, fingerprinting and other methods are all equal to cookies. Even IP tracking is the same as a cookie. "Cookie Banner" is just tech-jargon for these banners, but an incorrect one.
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by ratww 5y ago
The linked article says people thought Street View was a live feed of their houses. This is pure conjecture coming from a single person, and sounds like a massive straw-man. I know several people who have blocked their houses on Google and
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by ratww 5y ago
That was conjecture and unrelated to this, I removed it.
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by ratww 5y ago
"Legitimate Interest" is when you need to collect personal information, but not for shady stuff. An example is for Fraud prevention, network security (eg: Cloudflare), or for legal reasons (eg: purchase information). As long as
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by ratww 5y ago
I once asked a person working on a large music instrument website why products "Made in USA" or "Made in [European Country]" were labeled as such, but the ones made in other countries aren't, and the answer was pret
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by ratww 5y ago
My company is now giving us those to use in our company laptops: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61l+gnZORVL._AC_SY355_.j... They're pretty convenient and look nice
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by ratww 5y ago
They control the browser and the server, so they could also implement GPC if they have any objections to DNT. https://globalprivacycontrol.github.io/gpc-spec/
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by ratww 5y ago
That figure is "Weekly Downloads", not in total. None of them had updates in less than two months. Also, React has published 10x more versions than Redux. So if anything, Redux might be more popular than GP assumed.
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by ratww 5y ago
Yep, this is how most of the companies I worked for handled recurring payments. The only time the customer needs to input their credit card again is when the credit card number changes. Some providers even had integration with banks, so whe
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by ratww 5y ago
Different banks/card issuers have different rules too.
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by ratww 5y ago
> I don't have the experience to know if this is actually the case, but it seems completely plausible that different countries have different regulations (or enforcement thereof) such that US companies have to care about PCI more t
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by ratww 5y ago
> Your original work uses the licensed track Using samples for percussion doesn’t mean sampling other commercial tracks, nor does it mean you’re using loops. > Your work is similar to their work. > > If they were first they h
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by ratww 5y ago
> Basically when it is easy and simple and sounds good right out of the box, someone else has beat you to using it in a song, and you are in violation of their copyright. No, it’s not. Not in a million years is a violation. This is not h
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by ratww 5y ago
Yep. There were several lots of other examples like this one posted in Hacker News threads and in Reddit in the recent months. This is an epidemic of ContentID scams.
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by ratww 5y ago
> That is what is derogatorily called cynicism in the OP. Then, there are clearly two things being called cynicism here. Arguing that the author is wrong because X is good when the author is actually talking about Y is a fruitless exer
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by ratww 5y ago
> about spotting when optimistic messages are hiding a power-grabbing scheme of some kind IMO that's not being cynical. That's actually an universally positive trait: being able to spot power-grabbing schemes. The problem wit
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by ratww 5y ago
What a strange hill to die on. I sincerely wish that every single country in the world had politicians whose worst issue is forgetting to change to the new trendy provider and to set up an HTTPS redirection. Different people have different
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by ratww 5y ago
SSL looks fine to me: https://blog.bozho.net
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by ratww 5y ago
I'm not the GP but I also removed the sole video I had in my account and deleted the channel. The video just had birds in it. If Google bans the account for any reason, it might spill over to other accounts that are easy to associate w
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by ratww 5y ago
Streamable and Ufile are the ones I used last, if you don't want anything too permanent. Imgur has videos too I think.
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by ratww 5y ago
Ah the plot thickens, then! It could be an overzealous filter.
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by ratww 5y ago
Yep. I just use social network or disposable/temporary video hosts for anything now.
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by ratww 5y ago
That's correct, but I've seen this rule being broken often on channels that had pirate music.

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