WTH is this shit?!

  • usernotfound@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Why is it called “Revoke consent”? Consent was never asked during setup, so how can it be revoked?

    • Myro@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      Is this relevant? If you’re using these blockers, aren’t you also not affected by the data collection? Or are the settings related to in-app data collection that is not affected by blockers?

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Sync was always an ad supported app with ways to remove them.

      I’m not sure why anyone would expect that to change.

      I get it, the idea of ads on an app accessing an ad-free, and generally anti capitalist network like lemmy is dissonant. But the truth is that I’d rather have ads in apps than have developers not getting paid for their work.

      You gotta realize, it is a time intensive thing. If someone is working on a lemmy app in their spare time, that means development is going to be slow as hell. If they’re getting enough income to do it full time (or even part time but dedicated), then we have access to a stable, well supported app.

      Google has fucked over developers in how they can monetize. They can’t do iterative sales the way software used to work, where you’d buy a program and any major new versions were a new purchase. They’re limited in how many versions they can have in the play store, so they can’t have tiers at various price points.

      Google wants their cut, and that’s all they really care about. They get the biggest flow from subscriptions and ads. So they try and channel developers into those streams. It’s a long standing problem.

      Thia is one of those things where you can’t hate the player, you gotta hate the game.

      • spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        As long as people can remove the trackers and not have their data sold by paying upfront, instead of having to pay AND part with your privacy then I don’t think there is any problem with this. Especially because of the FOSS community’s general attitude of ‘Is it really open-source if the dev doesn’t have to do borderline illegal labor in China to survive?’ sucks

    • JohnEdwa@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      “Confirm Choices” should also function as that button, as the consent needs to be opt-in - nothing should be on by default.

        • Razp@lemm.eeEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          Was the update done server side or client? There was not any updates to the app

          • Murvel@lemm.eeOPEnglish
            01·
            11 months ago

            For me, the dialogue changed and I think the prompt is some html redirect. Gives me the option to deny all (but it currently does not work)

  • Ethalis@jlai.luEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    The two toggles called “Consent” and “Legitimate interest” is one of the most jarring things I’ve seen since GDPR came out. Those are legal basis for processing data, they’re not supposed to shown like that to the user, that just makes no sense.

    User have to opt-in for processing activities that are based on consent, and be allowed to opt-out of processing activities that are based on legitimate interest, but to do that they must know what those processing activities are in the first place!

    Edit: The more I think about it the more it makes my head hurt. What does a toggle just called “consent” mean? Am I opting in for “consent”? Why are they just writing “legitimate interest” without telling what is the interest and why it is legitimate? Complete nonsense

  • dottedgreenline@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Back to jerboa for me. Even though people seem to overlook it, it seems to work pretty well, and every single app I try just leads me back to it. I am also getting faster loading thumbnails and images on it than sync. Sync does feel smooth with its high refresh rate, but in my limited time with it, that seems to be the only plus it has over jerboa (edit: for the way I like using it; list or compact mode).

    • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      Yep, I’m already back on Connect. Why switch to an app that uses Google to track me?