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[–] antony@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Hardly surprising since they were acquired by Google.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

If a given form of data sharing is illegal, then you shouldn't be able to consent to it, especially now that we have awareness of dark patterns used to pressure people to consent to surrender their rights away.

The same reason a click-wrap TOS cannot be binding (as of 2020, I think) because it's too easy to run a contract by customer the length of Richard III and the end user give up and click without reading (or comprehending).

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

And this is why I refuse to buy devices that depend on "the cloud" to essentially work at all. Getting harder though...