"We care about your privacy!"

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

Also I just switched off JS and read your fucking article anyway. What you and your partners gonna do about that? 🤪

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

In the real world still, if a person says to you, "This is my partner", that basically means something like, "If you trust me, you can trust them" and/or "this person can speak on my behalf because they know me really well".

But online "partner" apparently now just means "a collection of companies whose names I could not even recount without looking them up in a database or spreadsheet I have somewhere".

[brunty@brunty.social]

@ruari even in the polyamory space if someone said "here's my 1584 partners" some eyebrows would be raised 🤣

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

I only share my economy with one person and my highest level of trust is with that same person. It's my wife. She is the one person in this world I would give the label "partner".

Apparently I am holding myself back. I need to collect a few more thousand partners.

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

@brunty Right!? 🤣

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

@amin Do you really think she will mind? 🤔

[timmy@goblin.camp]

@ruari @amin only way to know is to ask, using a popup that covers up the website she’s trying to look at

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

@timmy True by trying to click through she will agree and I can laugh and shout. "Ha HA you agreed, now I can fuck anyone I want!!!!"

@amin

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

@timmy I might not though as the likely outcome is actually zero partners. 🤔 @amin

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

Here is a fun thing. I work for Vivaldi Browser. Load any of our websites and you see no cookie banner and no mention of partners.

https://vivaldi.com

"But wait" you say, "didn't those terrible Europeans mandate the cookie banner!?"

No, no they did not. We do not need a cookie banner because we are not selling all your shit to every company under the sun.

Also those sites with cookie banners are just doing malicious compliance. This was never about the EU requiring cookie banners!

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

The one wierd trick to not having a cookie banner is… wait for it… Do not sell out your users!

Who knew!?

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

Apparently the Fediverse actually did know because guess what, whenever I visit an instance I am also not asked to click through a cookie banner. Again, SO WEIRD!

[craignicol@glasgow.social]

@ruari the bit the companies don't say is that EU requires informed consent to share your data.

Cookie banners are a deliberately poor implementation for collecting consent. And many of them are not compliant because they don't inform.

[wishgranter14@poa.st]

@ruari

they care about your privacy, that's why they're keeping it private between them and all their partners.

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

@wishgranter14 Ah yes, of course. How silly I am. 🤣

[leeloo@c.im]

@ruari
"These are my partners, and if you trust me, you can trust them".

"Either way, you fucked up by trusting any of us".

[bhtooefr@snack.social]

@ruari@velocipederider.com you just have to use abstinence-based sex education's definition of "partner"

(for those unaware: "when you have sex with someone, you've had sex with everyone they've ever had sex with, and everyone that those people have ever had sex with, so on, and so on")

[hodgesc@mas.to]

@ruari My sole public-facing website is a GPX file visualiser. When I made it public I added a privacy statement:

"Privacy: I don't set any cookies, or store any data. All processing is done in your browser so I have no access to your routes "

It's easy, unless you come from the position that screwing fractional cents out of every page load is a business model

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

@leeloo THIS

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

@bhtooefr That is some fucked up logic but ok. 🤣