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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

I find it interesting that Apple promotes uBlock Origin Lite in the Safari settings extensions pane

Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

I guess at the time (2018) the EU powers that be might have actually meant this, but now those have succumbed to the awe of AI, the (far-)right and US pressure And don't let anyone tell you the GDPR was never meant to regulate AI, it most certainly was #loveGDPR www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Another one of Google's tricks to get you to install Chrome even if you are using one of the other Chromium browsers which are perfectly compatible with all Chrome Web Store extensions (but most users of these browsers probably don't know that)

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey, just a quick reminder to burn more energy for no reason!

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Definitely not the first time. In fact we surprisingly even have some CJEU case law on it (C-693/22), albeit only an AG opinion since the case was withdrawn before it got to the judgement. The gist is that the AG thinks its permissible. I'm not sure I agree. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

Hey, Google, fuck off They could just not do this in the EU and challenge anyone that tries to force you to do in court

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

Yeah I saw, not sure I can handle all the vote swings (or ties) as the votes come in

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

Please god I hope this doesn't hold, not the bad 52-48 split again #iceland

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

It acknowledges the concerns I shared in my other replies. Also the issue here is that the HSM is located on Signal's server's (an untrusted environment) and not your own device. Guidelines aside, and as mentioned, rate limiting does not defend against PIN/password spraying.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Maybe I should just let this AI write skeets for me

Watching the Commission fast-track rival AI chatbot access while letting DMA interoperability rot is the most "we're not falling behind" move yet. Priorities are completely inverted. 🙃

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Viber is reaching levels of enshittification and tackiness I had no idea even existed

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

Article 9(2)(e) purpose limitation question, though the judgement didn't really say much on it, which I think confirms my earlier interpretation (see also AG opinion, paras. 41-46). In that context, noyb also says (noyb.eu/en/cjeu-meta...) that that purpose limitation just runs in parallel.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

(Sorry for the late response, just got done with exams and I know I have to catch up on some other mentions as well.) So I think Meta v. Bundeskartellamt is relevant here, specifically paras. 81 and 82 because it seems to imply that an element of making SCD manifestly public requires the DS to have

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

This is important as the Facebook Messenger team appears to be staying the course to roll out E2EE more widely (though past chats continue to be in plain text), in contrast to the (albeit limited) E2EE opt-in option being killed on Instagram. www.wired.com/story/the-da... I did a more in-depth

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

However this only seems to work if you select a certain (eligible, and not all seem to be) group chat and then select 'Start end-to-end encrypted group chat' which brings you to a new chat UI where the text explicitly notes that chats are end-to-end encrypted, also confirmed by the sidebar.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

I think Facebook is perhaps slowly testing support for end-to-end encryption in Messenger group chats. This does not appear to be documented anywhere and I may be part of a limited early rollout or test group, but I was able to create a new E2EE chat group on the web version of Messenger.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026

Is OpenAI bothered I'm not contributing to climate change enough that it keeps sending me these 'pwease use our product' messages?

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

Hm, got this reminder in my inbox from Google. Interesting that it specifically mentions Article 5(2) DMA and doesn't exclude other EU laws from potentially requiring the same (see Meta v. Bundeskartellamt).

Screenshot of an email saying:

"Google

Reminder about linked Google services

Laws in the EU, including Article 5(2) of the Digital Markets Act, require Google to get consent to link these services:

Search

YouTube

Google Play

Ad services

Chrome

Google Shopping

Google Maps

Learn more about linked Google services, including services that are always linked.

You can change your choices anytime from Google Account."

Screenshot of an email saying:

"When linked, services can share personal data with each other and other linked Google services to:

Combine personal data to help personalize content and ads

Develop and improve our services

Measure and improve the delivery of ads

Perform other purposes described in Google's Privacy Policy

If Google services aren't linked, most features in the services that can be linked will continue to work, but some features that involve sharing data across services will be limited or unavailable.

You received this email to let you know about important changes to your Google Account and services.

2026 Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street,

Dublin 4. Ireland."

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Imagine this being your legacy LOL

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Are we really sure that's what the court is saying here? My reading here is that they reference para. 547 not to say that Article 2 TEU cannot ever reach beyond the usual (Charter) scope of Union law but to underline that the breach of Article 2 TEU values must be systemic, lest limits contained

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 10/04/2026

Nope, no such category exists on the mobile app. Might just have to do with steering clear as far as possible from any app store ToS regarding porn and sexual content.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026

Meta just doesn't relent and wants to integrate Messenger more closely into Facebook. Thank god for @beeper.com! In addition to Instagram DMs, I'll probably move Facebook Messenger there as well.

Facebook Messenger modal saying: "Messenger.com is moving to fb.com/messages on April 16, 2026. We know your conversations are important and there's no need to worry. You'll still be able to keep chatting on Facebook and the Messenger app."

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026

STFU, you were in favor of the TikTok ban, resulting in its sale to the right's media empire, ensuring all the biggest tech companies toe the Trump line, a massive own goal by the Dems. I get the leftist desire to regulate, but sadly the record reveals Dem politicians to be utter fucking morons 🤷‍♂️

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 05/03/2026

Oh, also, I forgot, this is also maybe kinda illegal under Article 5(6) DMA? (I don't care to read the whole agreement though to see if they give an out for this.)

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

Can I have some more of them slides?

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

I really miss the old internet

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 25/01/2026

I've always been annoyed at how democracy rankings ignore assessing how democratic backsliding potential. Many older "full democracies" (US, UK, Nordics) are some of the most prone because they often lack serious constitutional barriers to backsliding. Here's them coming into contact with fascism:

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 08/01/2026

Please make more slop! Zuck begs of you! (Literally who can still put up with using these platforms?)

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 02/01/2026

I don't appreciate this Mark Cuban quote in a signals processing class I'm taking He said this at the Upfront Summit in 2017, so I guess we've been living among tons of dinosaurs since 2020, even before the AI hype cycle started... Wish we didn't do this "billionaire said a thing!" regurgitation

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 27/12/2025

Interesting that TikTok decided to add this banner to their web app. Linked article: www.tiktok.com/legal/update...

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 19/12/2025

Discord has a new annual recap feature that requires you to have had personalization turn on (enabling it now doesn't give you 2025 recap). support.discord.com/hc/en-us/art... Of course, enabling personalization also enables a bunch of other (unwanted) things: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/art...

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 09/12/2025

The Austrian Supreme Court did, no? Or did you mean post-DSA? We could've been spared some trouble if they hadn't violated their obligation to refer the question to the CJEU... noyb.eu/sites/defaul...

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 03/12/2025

Out of nowhere, Instagram is once again begging me to give it location access. (I'm not setting this up on a new device and this prompt has been shown to me twice now.)

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 28/11/2025

And even more pointless ones like this (I don't think they could improve consent rates with this). If I were even more evil, I would suggest a "ahh we detected a consent rejection signal, just to confirm, are you sure?" There is no low this industry won't stoop down to

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 28/11/2025

If the mandate for legally binding browser consent signals is not well-drafted, this is where the goalposts will shift to

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 28/11/2025

I'm sure it's a coincidence that Sony also has its own music label. I'd be quite surprised if they weren't using the aggregated (anonymized) statistics to inform their business decisions there.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 27/11/2025

Parliament is also calling for "a ban on sites not complying with EU rules". LOL Same energy

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 08/08/2025

The screenshot prevention features really do be like that www.instagram.com/reel/DG5GoJI...

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 02/08/2025

EUR-Lex has finally leveled up and now has an actual working table of contents. It only took decades but good that we finally have this (albeit I imagine only some legal documents)!

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 29/07/2025

Linked article: help.x.com/en/rules-and... ID-based verification to be made available in the coming weeks but subscribers that already underwent it should apparently already be treated as adults. Can't find a way to trigger facial age estimation either. And of course... LOL GDPR compliance

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 29/07/2025

It's starting now in the EU. Seeing this on X. Example in parent tweet to this reply: x.com/ttvcyechlin/... Previously set DoB (well over 18) doesn't matter. On the upside, porn was a pull factor on X so perhaps an opportunity for other platforms not participating in this mania to draw in users?

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 29/07/2025

Of course even the strongest US regulation of data brokers is completely inadequate

RFN: You’ve introduced several data privacy laws in Vermont and have said the lobbying effort to defeat your bills has been intense. Tell me about that.

MP: What I ended up sharing with lawmakers on the call was that there were some personal attacks. There was an ethics complaint threatened [saying that Priestley doesn’t live in her district, which is untrue]. I actually think that the purpose of threatening to file an ethics complaint that I don't live in my district was [meant] to get my address in public, basically in evidence, to be able to doxx me. …

We had [a lobbyist] show up in our cafeteria and she was talking to members of my committee.

RFN: So this is a data broker industry lobbyist?

MP: One of the big ones. The other [lobbying] entity that was getting involved was the automakers’ [lobbying association]. … [The data broker industry association] established a national PAC to fight data broker laws.

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025

I see Bumble sends data to Facebook without any consent whatsoever. I used the Facebook single sign-on (to maintain access after phone number expiration) but that was on another account. Phone numbers, email addresses and other identifiers also completely different. Something strange going on here?

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 19/07/2025

Probably because it's not relevant to their shameless rent collection on NB-ICS. But it's nice to see the telecoms sector is staying as delusional about this as ever. Email less secure than SMS? LOL "If you can't bill it, kill it." I truly wonder why they've been failing at this for a decade. 🤔

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 08/07/2025

Yes, dear Sir, you have already expressed a preference to not be tracked using the Global Privacy Control signal but we are showing you the cookie banner anyway Shown on Ars Technica

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 05/07/2025

integration could potentially be interesting. And this is what Apple does to would-be interoperators: not touching it with a 100 ft pole. Some otherwise interesting discussion you should check out if you care about messaging interoperability.

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