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“Pay or okay” is illegal, thanks to noyb. Also, Fitbit has some “take it or leave it” which goes strongly against our GDPA.
Btw: other sites like “Der Spiegel” or “Zeit Online” have the same illegal entry like Heise. They should all be sued imo. See here for example:
Like I wrote in the headline: that’s about time. And I also filed the same complaint with Mrs. Margrethe Vestager from the EU parliament.
As always, thanks for reading.
If you’re reading this blog regularly, you might have asked yourselves why all the thoughts about security, privacy, freedom, and so on lately? And you might be one of those who say “I have nothing to hide”. Well…
This one is a must see. It helps if you understand English, French, and German at least a bit, but even if you don’t, watch it to the end:
This comes from the PeerTube, and it promotes those free and decentralised services, and for good reason as you will hear. So please do yourself and us all a favour and stop using Facebook, Whatsapp, and all of that – and replace it with something like Signal or even better, XMPP. We will all profit from it.
Oh, and in case you have an old Android phone which isn’t supported with regular updates anymore, try DivestOS. And if you have a new one from Google, try GrapheneOS (or else, DivestOS again). Sure you can’t live without that intrusive Play Store? Have a look at F-Droid instead. Or are you using Apple instead? Maybe think again… and please start encrypting. You can at least do that even if you stay with a standard Google or Samsung or Apple device.
As always, thanks for reading, and for viewing.
As The Guardian reports, based on data from Global Energy Monitor, China is on its way to overachieve their goals on wind and solar energy by five years. So applause from here, and thanks to The Guardian for the heads-up on this.
Found a nice video from Zeit Online *without* the usual simultaneous translations. So here is in very good quality His Majesty Charles the Third:
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Wann immer ich Nachrichten wie diese sehe, regt sich in mir der Wunsch nach der Möglichkeit eines direkten – aus dem Volk heraus geäußerten – Mißtrauensvotums gegen einzelne Minister (wie in diesem Fall gegen die Herren Wissing und Lindner).
Wirklich; wir brauchen scheint’s deutlich mehr direkte (Basis-) demokratie und Volksentscheide. Es kann nicht sein daß einzelne gewählte Politiker vier Jahre lang einen Freibrief dafür bekommen, eine Dummheit nach der anderen zu begehen und ein ganzes Land der Lächerlichkeit preiszugeben. Oder eine Industrie zu unterstützen die dies – bis auf Porsche in diesem Fall – gar nicht will.
Und bevor die CDU/CSU oder gar die AfD sich über einen solchen Beitrag freuen: ich könnte auch gut ohne einige Abgeordnete wie die Herren Merz und Söder oder gar den meisten Mitgliedern der AfD in einem deutschen Bundestag leben. Aber ok – wir leben ja in einer Demokratie, also werde ich diese wohl ertragen müssen, auch wenn sie den ganzen Tag lang meist Unfug erzählen.
Vielleicht sollten wir “dem Volk” ja auch – wie die alten Griechen es hatten – die Möglichkeit geben jedes Jahr ein bis zwei Politiker abzuwählen? Es muß ja nicht gleich der Schierlingsbecher wie bei Sokrates werden, aber Dame Professor Mary Beard erkärt uns – jetzt doch wieder auf Englisch – wie Demokratie auch aussehen könnte:
Mehr interessante Geschichtsstunden – nicht nur über Demokratie – bei Dame Prof. Beard gibt’s hier. Eine “Dame” ist ein ziemlich hoher Rang eines OBE – also eines Officers of the British Empire. Und übrigens, Sokrates war toll… 🙂
Meine sonntäglichen 2 (Euro-) Cents…
Thanks to an article in The Independent, I found this – and I thought that maybe an anti war video would make a nice Christmas message?
Has English subs, so it should be easy to understand for non Russians as well. Thanks for watching.
P.S.: It’s in The Guardian as well. Still waiting for a message to show up in our “Tagesschau Online”…
Have you ever visited their site? Maybe you should…
I just read the BigBrotherAward 2019 in der Kategorie Verbraucherschutz (in German) which went to Zeit Online for their paywall which basically lets you choose to either pay with money or with your data – something that 75% of all online news magazines seem to do now as the article and speech said.
And yes, I’ve seen the same paywall at spiegel.de or heise.de – and no, that *is* not acceptable. If you click “yes, go on”, the heise guys for instance will send your data to >200 “partner” sites all over the globe – so I just asked a member of the EU commission if we can’t stop these practices, for instance with forcing them to add the option “yes to ads, but no to tracking”.
Maybe we should all say “no” instead, and boycott these data tracking sites? If they’d all lose their readers like the British “Times” which lost over 90% of their audience when using similar techniques, then maybe that would stop them… according to Wikipedia (search for something like “Paywall”), some US news magazines are already taking these trackers off…
Thanks to digitalcourage, DVD, ILMR, and CCC for supporting these BigBrotherAwards!
And to you, like always, thanks for reading.
If you’d like to see your tax money used for good, you can support the FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) with a pic, using their sharepic generator, like this:
If you don’t want to show your own pic, ask a friend if s/he will support it:
See their page. And thanks in case you’re supporting this as well.
Oh my… https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/supreme-court-epa-case-greenhouse-gas-b2111434.html – what is wrong with you guys? That is the world gone mad, and in the wrong hands, definitely. I mean, if even your president says that? Shaking my head in disbelief. 👎 🤦