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Now I don’t want to sound too unreasonable and say that software-devs shouldn’t be allowed to make money of their software or even that unpaid versions with apps are unreasonable. The issue here is with targeted online-ads: This app EXPLICITLY targets trans people, and given that T does most of the work for trans men most of the users are trans-women specifically. That is a fairly concrete demographic for whom I’m positive there are companies that would be willing to advertise to broadly. Strike a deal with them and include their apps inside the software-packet.

»YouTube: Sperren gegen Werbeblocker nun global«

Auch deswegen nutze ich YouTube nicht direkt, sondern Links über @invidious* oder nutze es mobil via @newpipe*, um Videos zu sehen und so weit frei vom Tracking zu sein. Leider sind noch nicht sehr viele anregende Videoproduktionen im Fediverse zB auf @peertube vertreten.

📺 stadt-bremerhaven.de/youtube-s
* Es gibt noch einige mehr Apps & Lösungen dafür.

#youtube #werbung #invidious #newpipe #peertube #fediverse #werbeblocker #tracking #usertracking

stadt-bremerhaven.deYouTube: Sperren gegen Werbeblocker nun globalSeit Mitte des Jahres blockt YouTube Anwender, die sich Videos mit aktiviertem Werbeblocker anschauen möchten. Warnungen und Gegenmaßnahmen ...
While i generally sympathize with the efforts of this Dutch campaign & website https://givesolidarityachance.org/eu
it seems akward, again, that the campaign

• mentions no goals or deadline for the campaign.

Will signatures at a certain date be given to someone official in EU or Netherlands, or presented officially otherwise to show the sheer mass of people wanting to help refugees and change the EU aylum system for the better?
What exactly are we supporting here, besides a general "like" for the cause?

And the website is - despite a privacy statement (that lacks a date of writing) - subject to the usual meta data collection (g oogletagmanager / newrelic), all of which are not ncessary for the site to function and could easily be spared.
Why should i let anyone (Gugl tc.) track my campaign prefs?

Looks incomplete to me, and correct me, if i oversaw things.

Anybody knows more?

#campaign #EUasylum #SiteTroubles #UserTracking
EUGive solidarity a chance | Give Solidarity a Chance
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@atomicpoet

I'm glad you have this resolved.

Two thoughts on the bigger issue: #UserTracking & #DataPrivacy. You wrote: "I’m not using Google search nor anything Google-related. "

1) I recently read a pretty good article on how our smartphones and notebooks are "listening in" on us.

2) I have been using #DuckDuckGo instead of #Google for these reasons for ages. Today, though, I read that all their privacy assurances are allegedly as fake as #Apple's and #Google's in earlier times.
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