Du hast einen Mobilfunkvertrag bei der Deutschen Telekom, Vodafone, Congstar, Fraenk oder O2? Dann solltest du die umstrittene utiq-Plattform (Werbetracking) deaktivieren. đ
@kuketzblog
Ich denke, dass dieses Deaktivieren, das Sammeln von Daten nicht verhindert. FĂŒr mich sieht es nur danach aus, dass die Seite, die bei utiq anfragt, eben nur ein flag bekommt, dass der User keine personalisierte Werbung wĂŒnscht. Utiq wird aber weiterhin diese Anfragen zu einem Datensatz zusammenfassen.
Am Ende bekommt man eben statt personalisierter Werbung irgendeine Werbung angezeigt und utiq sammelt weiterhin die Daten, die dann nach nem Jahr aktiv werden wer nicht wiederspricht.
An alle: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TelefĂłnica und Vodafone Mobilfunknutzer: Widerspruch bei der Online-Werbeplattform Utiq einlegen - fĂŒr ein Jahr gĂŒltig. đ
I thought the cookie consent alerts were bad back in the states, but - WOW. If I lived here (visiting Europe), I would FAR rather have cookies just set and not be told about it vs. this level of in-your-face, at-every-turn COOKIE ALERT, without question. Oy.
@HauntedOwlbear@cyrus@blakespot It might haven gotten better, but i never got Consent-o-matic to work in my browser...
Having succes with add-on Ghostery for firefox.
@jowek
Consent-o-Matic does the trick for Firefox 123.0.1 (64-bit) for me (on Pop!_OS Linux), but I'm aware that "it works on my system" means little in the grand scheme of things. :D
@kuketzblog@ZDF Die Schalter mĂŒssen in unterschiedlichen Farben dargestellt werden, um beide besser voneinander zu unterscheiden. Bei gleichen Farben könnte man versehentlich auf âZustimmen" klicken!
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đ§ "Our findings show how current messages to simply avoid #sexting do not work for young people."
đ Thank you for this article. Too many people do not want to accept the reality of this admittedly complex situation. Instead, they continue applying the same (so-called) solutions.
Instead:
âȘïž acknowlege reality
âȘïž teach #consent & healthy relationships (BONUS: that's what they would rather learn)
âȘïž stop criminalizing & shaming those you're trying to help
We are also working directly with select AI companies as long as their plans align with what our community cares about: attribution, opt-outs, and control.
Emphasis mine
This is not the tech industryâs most egregious lack of understanding of consent in recent years. That dishonor belongs to LegalFling: A blockchain app for sexual consent.
However, this is still pretty stupid, and the result of an insidious trend that doesnât get questioned enough in software engineering circles. So Iâm asking that my readers shout this from the fucking rooftops.
Opt-Out Is NOT Consent
Opt-out is âour lawyers told us to make this an option to cover our ass, but we donât want you to actually do itâ.
Opt-out is âif you missed the memo, we assume we have your consentâ.
The default state of any decision regarding user data should be opted out. Users should instead be required to opt in for your decision to take effect, and they must not be coerced into doing so.
If consent is not explicitly given by an informed user, you havenât received consent at all, and to pretend otherwise is unethical.
Your users donât fucking care about opt-out. We care about opt-in.
âBut Soatok, Thatâll Hurt Our Revenueâ
If you have to make money doing unethical things, or by following dubious practices that donât actually respect other usersâ autonomy, then you should go out of business.
End of.
What Automattic Should Do
If Automattic wants to make things right, they must do two things and could do a third thing (but Iâm not holding my breath):
First, nuke the existing opt-out mechanism and replace it with an opt-in mechanism. If nobody checks it, then donât include their data in the sale to Midjourney or OpenAI.
Second, they should make the permission for third-parties more granular. Some of us donât care about third parties, but do NOT want âAIâ companies using their data to enable plagiarism.
Third, if you want to go the extra mile, add support for a plugin that uses Nightshade on all hosted media in all WordPress.com plans, including free plans, to increase your usersâ protection against LLM scrapists.
This is my open challenge to Automattic leadership to do better.
This Issue is Bigger than Automattic
The tech industry has gotten very bad at respecting usersâ consent lately. Your options are no longer âYesâ and âNoâ anymore. Instead itâs âYesâ or âMaybe Laterâ, without a âNeverâ option.
ugh not even @signalapp is safe from the unstoppable deprecation of consent in favour of ânot nowâ pic.twitter.com/sW4Ss2pqMb
It does keep going. Iâm going to skip a few, but check it out.> the unstoppable deprecation of consent in favour of ânot nowâ, episode 18 pic.twitter.com/CRdfujOBZt
Yes, even Linux is affected.Even worse, you can rarely uninstall the crapware that nags you with these consent dialogs.
This needs to stop. Itâs a toxic mentality and it cultivates a culture that doesnât respect humanity. (Which is kind of funny to write as a furry blogger.)
If you work in the tech industry, scream very loudly about properly implementing human-respecting consent controls into your software.
Just because itâs widespread doesnât mean itâs inevitable. Push back against it. Your less privileged, less technical neighbors deserve better.