From the Outlook Android app
They spelled “violate” wrong.
Is this Facebook?
Hundreds of partners is very common in news paper sites
It’s Outlook trying to be like Facebook
I guess I appreciate that there’s a “reject all” button and it’s not grayed out… Not sure if it’s because they were required to not hide it, though.
The only reason they’re even asking is because they’re required too.
I’m just surprised it’s not obscured by a dark pattern (making the opt-out button “less eye-catching” to paraphrase a different article)
I don’t think facebook shares much data to other companies, they have more to gain by keeping it to themselves and having all the data to serve their billions of users personnalized ads. Basically the same as Google, they don’t really sell your data. For these companies I never really liked the phrase that says you are the product, youre not really the product, you are what makes their product. If a company sold your data plainly, then yes in thsi case you are the product
We value your privacy. We’re selling it.
Gold
whoever put that "reject all"s are mandatory should be getting praised.
it would suck to individually reject those 797 “partners”.
This button doesn’t often work as you’d expect. Websites/Apps can (and do) still approve so called “legitimate interest” option. The only way to be sure is to click “manage preferences” and dig in to check if legitimate interest is enabled. Sometimes you’ll see “object all” in there, but you will find notice that some websites require to manually disable legitimate interest for each of the hundreds of partners manually.
Or just handle “legitimate interest” (i.e. page works) client side.
this could be its own twilight zone episode
fuck
Doesn’t Ghostery do that for us?
I checked Ghostery just this morning and user reviews claimed they sell your data as well.
Recently a pirate website for music, free-mp3-download.net got updated with this crap included. You have to toggle it off every time. All vendors separately. I took a stopwatch, it takes me around 2 minutes and 50 seconds.
Sounds friendly.To be fair, free-mp3-download.net is not a URL I would voluntarily go to. I mean seriously…
I don’t judge by domain names.
It’s also listed in the top 2 at FMHY: https://fmhy.net/audiopiracyguide#download-sites
And best site at DB0 megathread (!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com): https://rentry.co/megathread-music#free-mp3-download
Give me your wallet! Can’t refuse, I have a legitimate interest
I hate this. There is nothing legitimate about it. It’s one of the biggest insults anyone ever gave me.
797 partners? Might need to get tested haha
They do value your privacy very expensively!
Anything ran by Microsoft is a privacy concern (includes Windows, Teams, npm, GitHub)
npm?! Since when?
Looks like early last year. News to me, too
Yup. It’s privately held, not a community or non-profit-held registry.
I’d say they’re not lying. They do value your privacy. It’s making them, and 797 of their closest friends, a lot of money.
Accept all, then block it with Adguard with HTTPS Filter enabled for that app
Close the app and find another one.
Why? What is the benefit?
What’s worse is when it’s accept all or manage preferences, and you manually have to turn off cookies for all 718 partners individually, every time you open the app.
Consent-o-matic automates that for you
So does uninstalling and not using it
There will be some lawsuit in the future somewhere in Europe. And the judge will rightfully rule that you can’t get an “informed consent” from your users for 800 tracking companies just by letting them click a button with dark patterns.
Europe for sure. USA? Better chance of the president smoking rock at the state of the union. Land of the fee and all that.
That’s why F-Droid exists.
“We value your privacy”. Proceeds to not value any kind of privacy at all
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Imagine applying to private university and reading their privacy policy, where they clearly say, how they get your private information from third parties and share all info with third parties. And when you ask administrator, how can i prevent them from doing that, they say, that they do not share/get info from/to thirdparties. Bravo
Sounds like an easy lawsuit
