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Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU
  • That's correct. But this is only the case because of the DMA, mit the Gdpr

  • Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU
  • No.

    • the Facebook case: DMA/ digital markets act. This case is only regarding the choice between personalisation or paying to access the service. Only for really big patients deemed to be gatekeepers. There are only five at the moment: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en
    • showing ads that are personalized, or any other things where they use information about you: Gdpr. You have to allow it.
    • showing you ads that are not personalized: completely legal. Netflix does the same I think. Also Amazon prime.
  • Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU
  • IANAL, but: Gdpr only says that they cannot require you to sell your data to use a service. It does not say anything about paying with money. So this seems legal to me

  • Do your parents help you financially?
  • They did. And probably would again if necessary.

  • Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee
  • The best thing is that you do not need some crazy cryptocurrency for this functionality. You can just use bank transfer.

  • Umzug nach feddit.org?
  • Link?

  • YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount
  • I thought this is so you don't get ads?

  • Introducing Disrespectability Politics
  • I don't get a paywall

  • Finland’s free contraception initiative reduces teen abortions by 66%
  • Or you just make abortion illegal and you have reduced it to 0. Easy /s

  • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined
  • They wrote it in the article: jetflix It was even paid and people still used this instead of the legal services

  • The Condiment Wars
  • Yes, I see it similar. But miracle whip is not mayo and does not count

  • Everyone skims past filler anyway
  • Maybe they were just too polite to mention it.

  • A cool guide for Cost by Protein Source
  • Kind of. Most meals already have all the amino acids you need. Even if you were just eating plain rice. But just not as much from some types as others. In beans it would be the other way around.

    If you are already regulating what you eat and praying a lot of attention to the nutritional value or the calorie count, it might make sense to use this hack to limit the amount of food you are eating.

    But if not, you probably are already getting all the amino acids and proteins you need. Just not in the maximal efficient and compact way.

  • A cool guide for Cost by Protein Source
  • You didn't really need to, if you are not in a heavily restricted diet. Adam Ragusea has a nice video about this: https://youtu.be/psAlJtgeQsY

  • Habe gerade Nazi-Teenager in der Bahn neben mir gehabt
  • Falls jemand gerne häufiger was sagen will, aber meist nicht weiß was/wie:

    es gibt tolle Bücher (teilweise auch kostenlos)oder auch online Materialien mit Gesprächstipps und Argumentationshilfen, um diese Hürde zu überwinden.

  • How to delete places I've saved in Google maps? there is no delete button.
  • How/where did you save them? In a list? Just remove them from the list the same way you added them. Or just delete the list, if it is a custom list

  • Da wir nach der Europawahl noch nicht genug gelitten haben - Wahlergebnis Kreistagswahlen in Brandenburg:
  • Naja, wenn so viele Menschen so denken, ist es vielleicht auch irgendwann egal. Die kann man ja nicht alle weg sperren.

  • First projections of EU Parliament election results
  • Not really? Then the left would also be on the right

  • Space whale

    Source: https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/space-whale/

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    XKCD #2819: Pronunciation

    I pronounce the 'u' in 'pronunciation' like in 'putting' but the 'ou' in 'pronounce' like in 'wound'.

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    Transcript

    [The word "Tuesday", with each letter labeled by a box with an arrow:] T: As in buffet u: As in minute e: As in record s: As in use d: As in moped a: As in bass y: As in gyro

    [Caption below the panel:] Pet peeve: Ambiguous pronunciation guides

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    • https://xkcd.com/2819/
    • https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2819
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    XKCD #2816: Types of Solar Eclipse

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    The best place to be for a hug eclipse is a scenic natural area with good views and few clouds. The worst place to be is the lunar surface.

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    Shower thought:

    https://twitter.com/Nilstrieb/status/1690824763290042368?t=6hFQ97atII4IAvP1lgGvxg&s=19

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    tja TJA! @sh.itjust.works
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