If you weren’t so broke, you would know there is also Switzerland. ;)

You do realize some countries in Europe have federal governments (Germany for example), right? And then these completely independent countries are part of the EU which have EU elections. So you have federation within federation. Also, the EU has higher population than the USA. We don’t even all speak the same language. We are allowed to move between EU countries whenever we like and have residence where we please.

I think its not Europeans that don’t understand.

update: In case it is not clear, being registered automatically is the same as not having to register, which is what the post is about. Idk what that update word salad is supposed to be or why it is an update instead of a reply.

I strongly prefer GOG to the point where I often don’t buy games that are not on GOG.

That being said, one reason to buy from Steam is steam workshop. So if I want a lot of mods, I may buy from Steam even when available on GOG.

Look at the comment from ZeroGravitas. Even if you insist on asking the question which I don’t see why, just prefacing it with what he wrote would completely transform what it was. The issue may not even be the question but the lack of context/explanation before sharing it.

A conversation yes, just not a productive one. It may have done more damage than good, since many people now associate this issue with the ragebait and don’t take it seriously.

Here’s my take: the bear thing is causing such a visceral reaction that it is very hard to take a step back, not take it personally and have a rational discussion about it.

Imo the bear thing was phrased in a way to cause that visceral reaction. It was intended to be antagonistic. If the same point was phrased the way you phrased it above, I want to believe we would have much more civil discussion about it. But instead, the posts put many male readers on the defensive and those that tried to explain were seen as defending this antagonistic stance.

That is no excuse for DM harassment or harassment on other posts, just my take on the reason the discussion turned so uncivil.

Good to know. I would apreciate any sources for GDPR breaking to show to our IT.

I unfortunatelly have to use outlook and teams at work. If this really becomes the case, I will both write to EU regulators and try to petition our IT to move away from microsoft teams and potentially outlook.

I do as well

Except it is not just your instance and the instance hosting the post (which would make sense). It is every instance in the federation. So if I want to see how you vote, I just need to pay few bucks for hosting and make my own instance.

When you send a gdpr request to an instance, it is required to forward it to all parties it shared data with. So all instances it federates with.

But I am not talking about gdpr requests but data usage. Intentionally not removing data a user requested to be removed would get you in truble with the legitimate use (part of consent) requirements.

It does not cause security issues (that banks are concerned about). It is a DRM content decryption that is part of their TPM. So it is even considered a security feature that can more generally be used to ensure data can only be decrypted using the proper application the data was intended for. Netflix is already using it for 4k streaming. Read more here.

Sure, but it would border on illegal. At the very least, they would have to be far more carefull about GDPR and California law.

For me personally, its not even the principle with the bad ads. The reasons I won’t pay for preemium are:

1. 12$ is too much, since I don’t live in the US and my pay is not at that level.
2. I won’t pay to still have my data harvested and sold. If I pay for YT, there should be a different privacy policy with not using the data for anything outside video recommendations.
3. I don’t want to pay for all the antifeatures YT pushes such as removing dislikes, not allowing channel search on mobile, messing with search reaults and recommendations…

Intel is about to disagree with their DRM bullshit baked right into your CPUs silicon. Welcome to the “You will own nothing” future