Steinar @Steinar@snabelen.no

The dark patterns are strong in this one:



This could really have been a happy story. They have (as GDPR demands) made the default for the non-necessary cookies to be disabled. Once you are about to close the dialogue however: there's a big blue "OK"-like button, and a dimmed barely readable text. Which one to click? Chose wisely!

If you didn't pay attention, you just enabled all tracking by uninformed consent.

This is why we can not trust web site operators. Especially not when they depend on passing your behavioural data to the mining companies for income. And even the ones you wouldn't think needed that extra money still does it. Not even for the money, but because it is easier than not tracking you. That's how shit the web has become!

So be sure to block everything you can. Block ads, block trackers, block scripts — block the web if that's what we need to get our humanity back.

#gdpr #fail #consent #privacy #surveillance-capitalism #web-of-shit

#valg2021

That's Slavery 2.0: Alert management when an employee just *types* the name of the boss.

https://controlio.net/behavior-rules.html

(Via https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1388942018274017285)

#warning #lemmy #politics

https://lemmy.ml/c/china is a group platformed by @LemmyDev 's flagship instance that seems to be a community of tankies that don't acknowledge genocides of the past as well as the cultural genocide of the Uighurs.

One of the creators of Lemmy @nutomic is from what I can tell a communist who's a major player of this group.

Maybe not surprising to some, but probably something people like to know before engaging in the lemmy project and community.

#mastodon #fediverse

And today in “content moderation is hard at scale”.

#OnlineHarms

QT fakehistoryhunt: Dear Youtube, your copyright claim on this video is fake history.
Moonlight Sonata WAS made by Beethoven, it was not called 'Wicca Moonlight' and not first created by someone named Alice in 2015.

https://youtu.be/WcyOxtkafMs

Two spanish journalists and an irish activist have been murdered in Burkina Faso when they were preparing a documentary about poaching in Pama Forest Reserve. The assasination of environmentalists has reached Europe... but still doesn't seem to matter. cc @JonathanMBR

https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20210427/7362828/asesinados-dos-periodistas-espanoles-secuestrados-burkina-faso.html

Just when I thought I couldn't despise these guys anymore than I already do...

How a Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year”

A network of local resellers helps funnel Oracle technology to the police and military in China.

https://theintercept.com/2021/04/22/oracle-digital-china-resellers-brokers-surveillance/

https://seirdy.one/2021/04/16/permissions-policy-floc-misinfo.html

Northern Kenya is experiencing one of the worst droughts ,effects of climate change, 80 percent of Kenya is covered by arid and semi arid areas, the home of 30 percent of population.

From the images, residences are forced to water for wild animals.

I always forget about these until I stumble upon the one I have:
Capacitance Electronic Discs. Like phonographs for TV. The technology was very neat and very doomed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc

Codecov is the hack that will IMO eclipse the Cozy Bear Solar Winds supply chain hack and be "The Event Where Cyber War Crossed The Line" https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-12-codecov-security-event-and-hashicorp-gpg-key-exposure/23512 and there will be more. Much, much, more.

https://about.codecov.io/security-update/

About the latest variation of carbon capture Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) Jason Hickel has calculated: "In order for BECCS to remove as much carbon as the IPCC scenarios assume, we will need to create biofuel plantations covering an area two to three times the size of India, gobbling up about two-thirds of the planet's arable land."

The wildest forensic stories are the ones where you pull at a loose thread and discover that you've got hold of a the tip of the tentacle of some kind of cthulhoid monster from the depths of hell. That's the story of Eliminalia, global fraudsters for hire.

The story starts with Qurium, a secure hosting provider that focuses on at-risk civil society groups, the kinds of people who piss off dictators with their own snatch-squads they can use against their enemies.

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