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#421 2018-07-11 09:16:46
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
phiw13 wrote #312969:
Yes, On safari 11 (I use a different one, but the principle is the same) but it won’t work in Safari 12.
There’s a somewhat elegant workaround, for now: georgegarside.com/blog/macos/install-any-safari-extension-macos-mojave/
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#422 2018-07-11 09:32:45
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Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
jakob wrote:
I have a bunch of extensions for useful tools (Dropmark, AdBlock, 1Password, Bettersource, WhatFont)…
I think you’ll probably be safe with 1Password if this article is anything to go by:
Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway
…we have exclusively learned that Apple is planning an interesting partnership and a potential acquisition of AgileBits, maker of the popular password manager 1Password.
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#423 2018-07-11 10:06:15
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
Algaris wrote #312975:
Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway
But then I don’t believe rag rumours or startups about such details anyway. The truth is revealed over time.
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#424 2018-07-11 10:42:12
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Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
Hmm… Interesting. Thank you for the link to Twitter.
As you say the truth will come out over time.
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#425 2018-07-11 11:56:42
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
gaekwad wrote #312974:
There’s a somewhat elegant workaround, for now: georgegarside.com/blog/macos/install-any-safari-extension-macos-mojave/
“somewhat elegant“ ? hmm, define somewhat…. Quite cumbersome in fact. And anyway, you have to reenable the extension after restarting the browser.
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#426 2018-07-11 21:04:16
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
phiw13 wrote #312979:
“somewhat elegant“ ? hmm, define somewhat…. Quite cumbersome in fact.
…actually, yeah – now I’ve read it properly, that’s a bloody shambles.
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#427 2018-07-16 12:09:59
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
Fakebook got off easy this time, only because the ‘crime’ beat the date.
But we haven’t seen anything yet. Once a year passes and people get lazy and forgetful, authorities will not be sympathetic. And so far neither tech nor media has taking GDPR very seriously, with truly compliant changes/policies. It’s all just been dodging the bullet and doing what the Jones’ do, and the Jones’ ain’t doin’ it right.
The real fireworks are yet to come.
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#428 2018-07-16 13:51:43
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
Destry wrote #313033:
From the article:
“Facebook is being punished because it allowed someone else [Dr Krogen] to do something they were not allowed to do,” said media analyst Thomas Baekdal. If you translate that to publishers, it’s saying you’re responsible for what all the ad tech companies are doing, even if you tell them not to do it. If the ICO takes the same principle it’s giving Facebook and applies it to publishers and makes them responsible, that’s a big deal.”
I doubt there will be a newspaper or news organization with an online presence in Europe within a decade. Which means many of them won’t be offline either.
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#429 2018-07-16 17:19:31
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
michaelkpate wrote #313035:
I doubt there will be a newspaper or news organization with an online presence in Europe within a decade.
American media companies, I presume you mean, and specifically those that cater to English language only. Obviously European media won’t be turning away it’s citizenry to avoid the Reg.
Which means many of them won’t be offline either.
I doubt any news org is going offline either, but not because it avoided Europeans and the Reg, on the contrary.
Ad-tech is likely to suffer first (the real poison), which will be a catalyst to changing how the media game is played, again. I can’t say what that change will be, nor can anyone, because that’s the billion-dollar question they’re all scrambling to figure out.
But the answer likely lies in finding the right content cocktail and catering to other languages, not relying on poisonous ad-tech. News orgs than can’t wake up to that will hurt.
Certain American media won’t entirely shun EU readers, which seems rather far-fetched. NYT, as one example, enjoys a significant readership from American’s abroad alone, and has a 15% foreign subscription rate that grows faster than from home, though that’s not all EU, granted.
I wouldn’t be surprised if in 10 years more countries have similar laws to the EU’s GDPR, in fact.
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#430 2018-07-16 19:07:01
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
Destry wrote #313038:
American media companies, I presume you mean, and specifically those that cater to English language only. Obviously European media won’t be turning away it’s citizenry to avoid the Reg.
What I meant – following up on the quote and my earlier comments – was that none of the European publications have a sustainable business model that will allow them to survive under GDPR if it is actually enforced.
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#431 2018-07-18 02:06:21
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
GDPR is slowly making its way into Japanese legislation. EU and Japan signed a pretty wide-ranged Partnership Agreement. As part of this: The European Union and Japan agreed to create the world’s largest area of safe data flows (European Commission – Press release). There will be reciprocity.
Good. Sometimes those neolibcon trade agreements do have a positive side effect for us, the peeps.
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#432 2018-07-18 10:12:51
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
phiw13 wrote #313051:
GDPR is slowly making its way into Japanese legislation. EU and Japan signed a pretty wide-ranged Partnership Agreement.
This is good news. And the article says that Japan will be granted an adequacy decision in the fall.
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#433 2018-07-18 10:55:04
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
EU hits Google with €5B fine for Android shoving.
I think I’ll report Google and Free to CNIL for forcing Android into my television through FreeBox. Fockers.
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#434 2018-07-18 13:29:47
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
Destry wrote #313062:
EU hits Google with €5B fine for Android shoving.
In other words, Google was fined for not being Apple and allowing manufacturers to use Android. No one was required to enter an agreement – lots of companies like, for instance, Amazon have used the code from Android Open Source Project to create devices completely independently.
The free distribution of the Android platform, and of Google’s suite of applications, is not only efficient for phone makers and operators—it’s of huge benefit for developers and consumers. If phone makers and mobile network operators couldn’t include our apps on their wide range of devices, it would upset the balance of the Android ecosystem. So far, the Android business model has meant that we haven’t had to charge phone makers for our technology, or depend on a tightly controlled distribution model. – Sundar Pichai
This reminds me of the whole Browser Choice thing from 2010: Hey, Microsoft, because you sell a lot of copies of Windows you have to do things that Apple doesn’t. Now what we really want is for every copy of Windows to come with Opera preinstalled and set as default but since we can’t actually say that so instead you have to give everyone a choice of a bunch of browsers no one ever heard of and even less people want to use.
Ironically, the number one thing people do with Edge is download Chrome.
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#435 2018-07-18 15:06:34
Re: Txp cookies, visitor logging, and GDPR stuff in general
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon… I couldn’t care less about any of them or their products. It’s all tech giant lock-in one way or the other. I look forward to the day I’m free of them all.
I’m really hoping Purism’s Librem 5 phone comes through. It’s laptops are already proving to be popular with owners, but to provide a totally independent phone option, a big hurdle for sure, will be significant. I hope more companies will follow when the ice is broken.
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