Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
at first I read that one header as "We're Not Changing"
Does Google allow de-linking between accounts that were linked previously, then? I've seen people holding into a Google account just because it's keeping hostage other accounts they actually care about.
The next thing we need to outlaw is this marketing bs.
They are asking if you want to link services so they can share data. In the bottom bit they say they’re gonna share anyway for „other reasons“.
Same as with banking services, I want to see how much money they will make from selling my data.
Yay no seperate accounts anymore. Like, as if it is hard to create a Google Account...
Text transcript for the blind :
Keep your Google services, like YouTube, linked?
YouTube, Google Search, Google Play, Ad services, Google Chrome, Google Shopping & Google Maps.
New laws in the EU mean that, starting on March 6, 2024, Google needs your consent if you want to keep these services linked. When linked, they can share data with each other and with all other Google services to :
Things to know : Other settings let you control whether you see personalized content or ads. Linking Google services is not about sharing your data with third-party services.
What data is used : All types of personal data described in Google's Privacy Policy can be shared across linked Google services.
What's not changing : Even if they're not linked, Google services can always share data with each other to prevent fraud and abuse, effectively help you complete tasks, and for certain other purposes.
You're in control. You can change your choices anytime in your Google Account. Choices will take effect on March 6, 2024. Learn more about linked services. (I don't have the link to transcribe).
Here's a relevant article : https://www.androidauthority.com/google-services-dma-3402702/
Good human
Oh man thank you I always forget, sorry, didn't think about it.
Just dont use screenshots if not needed.
Btw what censor tool is that?
Ha ha none, that's me getting creative so you guys have something pretty to look at while also hiding my personal info. I can't help myself starting to doodling away when I go to delete shit with GIMP.
But I will always prefer screenshots because I think it is more impactful and provides visual context to show what's going on, a picture says more than a thousand words as it were.
So basically nothing changed.
Things most certainly changed. Now google has to beg me for it. Come on Google, beg. But maybe your point is that resistance is futile and why even try to fight it just give in and let it happen. I don't know but mama didn't raise no quitter, I don't know about you but to each his own eh.
It's not good enough. Google must DIE <3 ◉‿◉
Waiting for the perfect solution that might never come without doing anything in the meantime accomplishes nothing.
I do plenty.
You still using Gmail? 🧐
I was talking about law making not you specifically.
Just ban Google already 😈
This is the EU slowly doing what it can.
"Kill cancer already"? Ok, for that we need to do testing and advanced chemistry for a long time. This IS how you get rid of it, there is no other way.
Good.
Downvoted for picture of text. Please link to the page and transcribe it if you want to post a picture too. Blind people can't read images of text.
My bad, sorry for the oversight. No pun intended.
I do not understand the downvotes. Accessability is inclusiveness.
Lemmy's kinda shit on the alt-text front, too. The Mastodon/ActivityPub community is far better about this.
Dude I'm just a drunk gal with an internet connection, you would not believe the things that slip my mind on a daily basis.
I am always respectful and try to mind, but I'm not exactly omniscient either, I can barely hold my life together know what I mean? So sorry for no subtitles, but there are tons of super cool people here who do it voluntarily so that everyone can enjoy the knowledge of how deeply we are being spied on by Google. And our fight against it!
Lemmy needs to add real alt-text functionality, putting in the body works, sure; but it's not going to work out for posts that have both post text and images in the body. Such as someone posting text along with additional screenshots.
Alt-text should be hidden visually, but readable by screen readers.
Not sure what you mean. Just type the alt in markdown
[](https://example.com/some/page)
Doing it in markdown isn't a great solution, that's more for hover text then anything. Having a bunch of text in markdown Alt-text clogs the hell out of the post body and makes it harder to copy the raw markdown if you're not trying to grab a fuck load of additional text.
See HTML Accessibility.
Huh. Would that be a good solution, like a hover popup you mean? I'm not into CSS. Will screen readers get that? Shouldn't be crazy difficult to make a bot otherwise, screen reader scans images for text on request by poster or automatically. We have bots here right?
No. Basically just hidden/invisible text that only a screen reader would see.
You'd just upload an image and type alt-text in a box, hit enter and the alt-text would be added to the HTML of the page but not rendered and the image would be added to the markdown as usual, when the screen reader gets to the image, instead of just skipping over it, it'd pull the hidden text from the HTML and read that.
See HTML Accessibility.
You have a point, but you said it pretty abrasively.
Link is broken. Please add transcription to the body of the post
What client are you using? I'll try linking it in a way your client can handle.
Good person. Thanks.
"Even if they are not linked, services can still share data" Isn't that the whole point!?
In theory, they can't share ad targeting data. That said, with the DMA they should not be able to share "data to effectively make you able to complete tasks", that's the point. Interoperability between Gmail and YouTube should equal the interoperability between Gmail and Peertube or somesuch.
Does that mean i can use a different email?
Protonmail for example
You can already use Protonmail for a Google account, It's what I do.
EU, aka the illusion of changes to make good impression while catching 🤝US dollars at the EU parliment
Least cynical american.
Cool, so its either: do YOU want to use shared data across your accounts as well, or only us (google)?
The loopholes are ridiculous, not to mention that they are obviously going to just break everything for you if you don't comply anyway, but there's so many things they could do to throw sand in the gears- what matters is that the EU is doing something, it's reacting, it's trying to fight it and keep our common European values and not let foreign corporate empires dictate how things are done here, futile as the prospect may seem.
Remember! YOU are in control.
An efficient solution would to just stop using Google's services all together. That way they can't spy on you so easily and make a profile from your internet habits.
There are plenty of alternatives to Google services in the opensource realm.
Your profile pic put your comment in the right light.
Unless we made it so you are not but think you are. We value your privacy.