Privacy @lemmy.world LemUrun @pawb.social 5d ago

"We care about your privacy"

The biggest lie of all websites. There are websites, that if you want to use them, you MUST agree to ads and tracking, or you MUST pay a subscription to be free (no ads and no tracking). This is disgusting, this is REALLY disgusting.

Edit: I should add an example. transfermarkt.pl and their Content Pass for 3.99€ per month.

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“We care about you privacy…”

Also:

“Please allow us to share your data with our 936 partners”
- Absolutely the WORST is when you have cookie notice and all partners are ticked with no "disable all" button.
  
  It gets worse when you click each individual partner to revoke consent and at the bottom hit the wrong button to apply :-/
- We care about your privacy, in the same way we care about laws. I.e. just enough to ensure we don't get sued.
At least with "We value your privacy" they are a bit more honest
Not my web site.

Our privacy policy is one paragraph long. We don't share any information with anybody. And if we can at all help it, we don't collect any identifying information on you whatsoever. In one case we can't help it -- If you actually buy something, you're going to have to admit your name, contact information, and shipping location to us. Other than that, I literally could not give less of a flying fuck.

My analytics are interested in what users are doing in general, not what a particular merely pseudoanonymous individual is doing specifically.

We have a spam... ahem, email marketing list, also. I'm astounded at the proportion of users who deliberately check that check box that says, "Yes, please send me spam." (It's unchecked by default.) The month before last I didn't have anything particularly compelling to market, so I didn't spam anyone on our list.

I realize the way my particular business operates is a minority, but there it is. (Oh, so you have an Etsy shop or something and you're pretending to be Mr. Big Time Businessperson, you say. Er, no. We did $5.4 million in sales last year, a significant portion of which was online.)
- Does it literally say, "Yes, please send me spam"?
  
  It does, but in mildly corpo-speak:
- I wasn't implying your website. First example I can think of is transfermarkt.pl and their Content Pass for 3.99€ per month.
  
  I didn't say you were. I was just mentioning that there are still a few stalwarts out there actually trying to do it right. Admittedly, probably not many.
Best I can do is implement ad and tracking blockers (currently use AdGuard Home, many blocklists, DuckDuckGo, Brave debloated and uBlock Origin across various devices), enable the browser setting that sends a Do Not Track request, and not use the website, instead searching for the title keywords to find a non-invasive article if I really care about it. With every weapon there is armour to counter it. But you're right - you shouldn't need to armour up to traverse the web or read a potentially important piece of news. Some part of the internet should be free.
- A lot of websites plainly ignore / do not respond to DNTs.
  
  So it's like asking: "Hey, could you pls respect my privacy by not tracking me?"
  
  And they: "No, because we care about your privacy. 🙂"

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