The reason is because your country doesn’t have a GDPR
Read the article. It’s about the EU.
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.
GDPR is EU legislation, noyb is an EU organisation. What are you talking about?
I’m talking about passing data privacy laws that make the concepot of the OP illegal, like GDPR.
Pay or okay is happening in the EU right now as well. At least in Germany…
Sure, they’ll get fined a few hundred million Euros for it, though
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.
It says the EU is deciding how much to fine these companies.
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.
That’s just trading one privacy weakness for another, without being able to prove that original weakness has actually even been mitigated.
It make financial sense to provide this option, but “pay for privacy” is a questionable way to describe this transaction.
My biggest concern is they will hold your data hostage if you don’t pay or try to leave.
Also, how can we be assured the privacy practices of their subscription/payment platform are at least better than the (likely blockable) trackers?
Forming a financial relationship with a website is, theoretically, infinitely more traceable to your personal identity than all the cookies in the world.
My bank would probably tell everyone before they did.
Can’t do that in the EU (thank you GDPR).
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but they do this here anyway, at least in germany
They can, but then that can end up in EU court. If it happened to you, tell the consumer association of your country or your Data Protection Officer. People and companies can do what ever they like, they just have to live with the consequences.
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My biggest concern is they will hold your data hostage if you don’t pay or try to leave.
Are golem, pur, spiegel, and others doing so? Have you tried asking for your data to be deleted and gotten a “fuck you we won’t” or no response at all (which is also the equivalent of “fuck you we won’t”)?
Sadly, they are doing it in spain, the judges recently stated that they can do it, and few days later almost all of the spanish newspappers had it.
Care to elaborate?
Im in the US. The law dose not apply to businesses who can pay bribes.
Join us in the EU 🙂
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How much oil do you have?
None?
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Is € 251.88 the estimated loss in revenue? I would like to say that it only makes sense if you assume the user will be on the platform either way, instead of just not paying and leaving. However, my experience with others makes me believe they will take whatever option to get to what they want.
I think it’s a situation for policy but, at least here in the US, our policy makers aren’t in the ethical or learned position to be effective.
What I’m saying is, the boat has holes and I’m concerned.
Even if you pay them, your privacy is gone. Any part of you placed in someone else’s hands makes privacy a joke
Now they got ya financial info! Even less privacy!
For true
Privacy is not paid for. Privacy is taken. it is something that only you can achieve for yourself. paying ransom money will do little
Needs more pihole.
I’m fine with this trend.
Servers aren’t free and engineers aren’t cheap. Online products need to make money in our world.
If you’re not paying them they need something to sell to someone else.
They can just fuck off
Yeah, lemmy is insanely illogical on this topic. Services cost money to run, and the average user is not going to self host anytime in the foreseeable future. I have yet to hear anybody offer a vision of how things might reasonably work without ads OR subscriptions.
The argument as far as I can tell is “FOSS means I don’t have to pay anything because it doesn’t cost anything! If they ask for donations they don’t mean me”
Not a single one of them have a monthly contribution to their instance though. Guaran-fucking-tee it.
Between this and the sheer amount of pro piracy, i’m honestly convinced people on Lemmy are cheap fucks.
I can understand not having anything and not wanting to pay. I get it.
But don’t act like it’s free just because you can’t afford it.
For our instance, the users have in fact donated and keep us running. I’m not sure why you’d think users are unwilling to donate.
Because I’ve regularly got in arguments with people who refuse to donate.
The ratio of leachers to seeders in torrents is a similar issue - and seeding is practically free.
Asking $12/yr for software seems like pulling teeth to some.
Asking $12/yr for software seems like pulling teeth to some.
That may be your problem. We don’t ask for anything specific. We simply make a post with how much the service costs and how much users have donated. Users are smart and can take things from there.
I’m not running an instance I’m talking about generalities not specifics.
Servers aren’t free but it’s damn cheap if you don’t bloat up your backend
And the way you don’t bloat your backend?
Expensive engineers
Throwing more bodies at a situation does NOT solve the situation faster or more efficiently; seriously, this shit is the most remedial, 101-level shit in pretty much any field where man-hours are a measuring metric.
That’s probably why he wrote “expensive” and not “more”.
It’s almost like he pluralized something implying “go get more”. I’m not playing semantic gymnastics with you tech"bro" ballbags this morning
Expensive engineers is a category dipshit.
You add an S to a noun in English to show it’s a category or grouping instead of a specific individual.
Learn to fucking read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_category
Idk I immediately understood what he meant, no need to be so rude about it
Seriously, you can’t have nine pregnant women and expect one baby in one month.
That’s not what I said or even remotely implied.
If you want a good back end that isn’t bloated you can’t use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they’re doing.
It’s a fight I’m constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was “self documenting”.
These contractors weren’t paid to care - I don’t blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.
But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps
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“no I didn’t say that thing”
average day on feddit 🙄
optimizing backend services is expensive because good engineers are expensive
um acktually you can’t build services faster by hiring tons of people 🤓🤓
Reading comprehension: you lack it.
The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was “self documenting”.
Unfortunately, there are expensive engineers who think the same 😦 I don’t know how they pass technical interviews or probationary periods.
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Definitely - hiring isn’t easy.
But you’ll never get value for money from engineers who don’t care, and you have a 0% chance of a cheap contractor caring.
Again - I don’t blame them. They shouldn’t care. The company clearly doesn’t respect them.
But it’s a false economy.
Again - I don’t blame them. They shouldn’t care. The company clearly doesn’t respect them.
True. Some people aren’t paid enough to care 👍
But it’s a false economy.
Is that a typo or a term I don’t know?
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Either you get:
- many engineers --> lots of money
- some good/very good/excellent engineers --> lots of money
Either way, it’s expensive.
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How expensive do we have to be for them to actually listen to us for a change? Or do you mean “expensive consultants?”
Well yeah this presupposes that management knows what the fuck they’re doing.
Which is vanishingly rare. It happens sometimes though. I worked at a small 12 man shop that had an engineer CEO who valued doing things right. Very refreshing.
Or it’s a FOSS solution.
Whenever I see FOSS offered as a solution I have to wonder if that person is paying for their own food, shelter, transportation and what have you, or if they are still living with their parents and not making any attempt to support themselves.
Nothing is free. There is a cost incurred at some point. The minimum cost is time, a finite commodity for all living beings, and effort, but other things require materials, which cost someone some time and effort to find, extract, or otherwise produce.
I certainly don’t say any of this in defense of capitalism, but “free” is a nonsense concept in human life. It simply doesn’t exist.
Hi, software engineer here. FOSS is a blessing and only fucking morons push against it.
Yes, developers need to be compensated, but it IS NOT ethical, correct, or even basically good to do that by being a predator towards your customers.
Life isn’t a zero sum game where you have to optimize material wealth. Some people do things for others just because they like doing it, because they have the means to do so, or because they simply want to help others.
Sure, there are costs involved, but that’s true for literally everything if you account for opportunity cost. The vast majority of people choose to waste time completely unproductively, with no objective benefits to their lives (often with objective disadvantages), so is it hard to imagine that some people aren’t like that and instead choose to help/provide for others whole perhaps having some other non-material benefits like learning something or just becoming liked within a community?
Doing something because you want to is vastly different from expecting everything to be free.
That’s the wrong kind of free
You are naive if you think paying them prevents them from getting more payments by selling your data wherever they can get away with tricking you into consent.
Problem is that some companies double dip. Pay for the service and have your data sold.
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I misread pay as gay and I thought this thread was going to get spicy
Just avoid using them. Expecting free services without giving out anything is naive.
