Dear Microsoft: if your web app requires Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome to work, it’s not a web app. Name it Skype for Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome and I’ll stop complaining. Or just make it a proper web app that truly runs on web browsers.
Web apps that only run on Chrome or Chrome based browsers, are not web apps; they are Chrome apps.
https://twitter.com/gergolippai/status/1105408829389504517
Not being a Tumblr user sort of has its benefits. One is that, well, you’re not using Tumblr. The other one is you never accepted their cookie and tracking policy and can have a beautiful view into not only how ad tracking works, but a bit into dark patterns, and how companies, that really don’t want to, reluctantly comply with the GDPR.
Let’s look at the particular example of Tumblr! I’ll be honest, this is the first time since (presumably; see also: GDPR) last May that I actually dug into what they want you to accept without thinking. Luckily Tumblr is a site that you don’t really have to see (especially since, you know, the purge… would say a lot of other guys), so whenever I was presented with their full screen consent request by accidentally clicking a link I just closed the tab. But now I had some free time to read, and I went down the rabbit hole. Continue reading The Trusted Partners of Tumblr; a fairy tale.
…is that they could actually do this in a way that doesn’t upset users, the press, European data privacy watchdogs, and Cory Doctorow (and me.) Continue reading The funny thing about Facebook’s “Messenger-WhatsApp-Instagram can chat to each other” idea…
