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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I based my assumptions on the parts in Revolts privacy policy, since reading the privacy policy of hCatpcha it alludes that each ‘vendor’ can select how much data they’d like to collect I assumed that Revolt only allowed them to collect IP, length of time on site and mouse movements. While they do sell information, they claim it to be anonymised and I contacted support to see how they did that for IP addresses.

    Which is why I don’t really mind. The information they have of me is at most how my cursor moved, how long I took to Submit a login request, Submit a registration request, Submit a password reset / email resend request and an obfuscated IP. Seems OK to me.



  • Doesn’t seem that bad, when you go to log in it checks your IP, length of time on the site and mouse movements.

    hCaptcha

    This section has been adapted from hCaptcha’s documentation.

    We use the hCaptcha anti-bot service (hereinafter “hCaptcha”) on our website. This service is provided by Intuition Machines, Inc., a Delaware US Corporation (“IMI”). hCaptcha is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a login page or contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, hCaptcha analyzes the behavior of the website or mobile app visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website or mobile app visitor enters a part of the website or app with hCaptcha enabled.

    When using the Revolt App, hCaptcha will only begin analysis when you:

    Submit a login request.
    Submit a registration request.
    Submit a password reset / email resend request.
    

    For the analysis, hCaptcha evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website or app, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to IMI.

    Data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (DSGVO): the website or mobile app operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam. IMI acts as a “data processor” acting on behalf of its customers as defined under the GDPR, and a “service provider” for the purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). For more information about hCaptcha and IMI’s privacy policy and terms of use, please visit the following links: https://hcaptcha.com/privacy/ and https://hcaptcha.com/terms.




  • I’ve not seen any of these arguments. Though it may be all downvoted to hell and back.

    My main gripe with adding privacy features to Lemmy is that the whole point of Lemmy is that all data is already publicly available and for Lemmy to continue working the way it does it’ll need to remain that way. And because of that there’s nothing that can be done to stop bad actors setting up an instance and selling all the data they collect.

    At least in the EU (and UK to a lesser extent) no major corporation would be able to get away with selling that data, so the spent man hours on allowing privacy settings would be wasted time.










  • large corporations have so much control and market share. It is these corporations that encourage regulations like this.

    Exactly, like this. As I said, you can write regulations so that small business aren’t affected by these problems, have it so that if you operate under a certain threshold it doesn’t apply to your company, and when the company does give them ample time and warning of the changes that they need to make.

    You seem to have this notion that laws can only be written in over-complicated lawyer speak, and to a certain extent in places like the US and EU it’s true, but it doesn’t have to. Let’s also reiterate that I’d rather a small business go bust, than continue to produce environmentally unfriendly products in the name of “competition”, due to the whole tens to hundreds of millions of people dying due to the effects of climate change.


  • Ye, let’s ignore climate change and kill millions of people so that small businesses can stay open.

    Which is already not a definite fact, but even if it was the same regulations can be written in such a way that grants exceptions to small businesses and funding to alleviate retooling / development costs.

    If your so worried about small businesses closing down because of regulations, a better way of dealing with it isn’t to stop all regulation.