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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Just avoid using them. Expecting free services without giving out anything is naive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The reason is because your country doesn't have a GDPR

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Read the article. It's about the EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Didn't read article: check

Mindless shitting on America: check

All we're missing is all rich people are bad!" And we would have hit the Lemmy trifecta.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

GDPR is EU legislation, noyb is an EU organisation. What are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about passing data privacy laws that make the concepot of the OP illegal, like GDPR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pay or okay is happening in the EU right now as well. At least in Germany...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, they'll get fined a few hundred million Euros for it, though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That’s…what the article is about. The pay or consent trend is starting in Europe because of EU laws that forced companies to give people an option to opt out of tracking. Now the EU is looking at another way to force tech companies to offer a realistic option for avoiding tracking.

It kinda seems like you didn’t read the article at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

It says the EU is deciding how much to fine these companies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

The main reason is because the vast majority of people do not care or lack foresight of where that trend has been taking us for over 17 years. Surely you have friends or family who do not care. I do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Needs more pihole.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even if you pay them, your privacy is gone. Any part of you placed in someone else's hands makes privacy a joke

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now they got ya financial info! Even less privacy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

Privacy is not paid for. Privacy is taken. it is something that only you can achieve for yourself. paying ransom money will do little

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