at first I read that one header as “We’re Not Changing”
Remember! YOU are in control.
Unless we made it so you are not but think you are. We value your privacy. Like literally. We value your private shit in dollaridoos. Lots of’em. So we’re taking your privacy seriously. Seriously to the bank that is.
An efficient solution would to just stop using Google’s services all together. That way they can’t spy on you so easily and make a profile from your internet habits.
There are plenty of alternatives to Google services in the opensource realm.
De-googling is not a simple task, it takes actual man-hours of proper work to be done, especially when we’re talking decades of accounts et c. Even when and if that gets done, what are you going to do about Android? And even if you sort that out, there are a hundred other digital ware that would need the same treatment.
At some point the task becomes insurmountable, it seems, not to mention you already need to have a solid technical background to have a chance of pulling it off.
I would love some suggestions if you have them, but frankly I am getting too old for this shit, I’ve fought it all my life but I’m just the one person and my time is limited you know what I’m sayin.
Cool, so its either: do YOU want to use shared data across your accounts as well, or only us (google)?
The loopholes are ridiculous, not to mention that they are obviously going to just break everything for you if you don’t comply anyway, but there’s so many things they could do to throw sand in the gears- what matters is that the EU is doing something, it’s reacting, it’s trying to fight it and keep our common European values and not let foreign corporate empires dictate how things are done here, futile as the prospect may seem.
“Even if they are not linked, services can still share data” Isn’t that the whole point!?
EU, aka the illusion of changes to make good impression while catching 🤝US dollars at the EU parliment
In theory, they can’t share ad targeting data. That said, with the DMA they should not be able to share “data to effectively make you able to complete tasks”, that’s the point. Interoperability between Gmail and YouTube should equal the interoperability between Gmail and Peertube or somesuch.
Downvoted for picture of text. Please link to the page and transcribe it if you want to post a picture too. Blind people can’t read images of text.
You have a point, but you said it pretty abrasively.
I’ve made a transcript here.
What client are you using? I’ll try linking it in a way your client can handle.
I do not understand the downvotes. Accessability is inclusiveness.
Lemmy’s kinda shit on the alt-text front, too. The Mastodon/ActivityPub community is far better about this.
Lemmy needs to add real alt-text functionality, putting in the body works, sure; but it’s not going to work out for posts that have both post text and images in the body. Such as someone posting text along with additional screenshots.
Alt-text should be hidden visually, but readable by screen readers.
Huh. Would that be a good solution, like a hover popup you mean? I’m not into CSS. Will screen readers get that? Shouldn’t be crazy difficult to make a bot otherwise, screen reader scans images for text on request by poster or automatically. We have bots here right?
Not sure what you mean. Just type the alt in markdown
[](https://example.com/some/page)
Dude I’m just a drunk gal with an internet connection, you would not believe the things that slip my mind on a daily basis.
I am always respectful and try to mind, but I’m not exactly omniscient either, I can barely hold my life together know what I mean? So sorry for no subtitles, but there are tons of super cool people here who do it voluntarily so that everyone can enjoy the knowledge of how deeply we are being spied on by Google. And our fight against it!
It’s not an indictment of you, it’s an indictment of Lemmy. AP has alt-text in the format. AP clients - almost uniformly - have space for alt text whanever pictures are posted, and the best of the remind and encourage you to add alt text when you post pictures. Lemmy provides no facility for alt-text; for a platform developed in this century and largely populated by inclusive liberals, it’s a rather shocking omission.
Good. The more people realize is being spied on, the better.
