Companies that track you will go to extreme measures to uniquely identify you, and then harvest as much data about you as possible. It is not unreasonable to think that Google (a well known tracker) would leverage this data about you - especially as other sources of data start to go away thanks to the GDPR.
This does not need to take us into the hell that we currently have of constantly asking if you are ok with cookies. That is what web developers have chosen to do because they do not want to give up on their tracking lifestyle. They can easily note that I do not want any tracking and never ask me again. But by asking again (and again, and again,....) they expect that the average user will break and just say "ok already". If you don't like the harassment of "can we track you please" dialogs, stop visiting that site. Bonus points for telling them why. This is not the only way we have to satisfy the privacy concerns, in fact it is a clear indication that the site does not want to respect your privacy at all.
You can easily link to Wikipedia and allow the user to decide if they want to click on it with no risk of running afoul of the GDPR. This is not threatening the webinees of the web.
The website developer wrote the script that told the browser to send the data. Just like any other data collection, the web site write the code that causes the data to be collected, and the browser in executing that script sends the data.
So should the cup that killed the cop be charged with murder? Seems like that would be a prerequisite for felony murder. Cop/prosecutor:“You’re guilty of felony murder” me:”who was murdered, who murdered them, and can you prove it?” Ok, and once we get the murderous cop charged, the the rest of the cops clearly should get hoisted on the felonious murder charges too - if I (who had nothing to do with that group) am going to be lumped in with them, then we as a group need to face the consequences of our felonious behaviors.
I know, logic doesn’t apply here… quite sad.
One of my go to indicators for a news source's trustworthiness is how often they publish corrections and retractions. If a news source never makes mistakes - then they are full of it. It is not humanly possible. only corrects itself when there is a threat (or successful) lawsuit, they are equally full of it. If they frequently make corrections, that is a sign that they do actual research and are interested in facts. Go check your favorite news source, and if you cannot find any corrections, or if you find a few but can also see that they were sued on the subjects they correct, then maybe you should consider a better researched source.
Also - since this is something that HD is just grafted on to a tool that 100% works without it, how hard will it be for someone to open the tool and remove what was added? It's not like this is highly integrated and removing it would require replacing some key component. And to my last question of what this does to your warranty, if it is a simple add on, it will be simple to remove. If the installation attempts to make it harder to remove it is highly likely that the installation will have some scaring effect on the original hardware - increasing the likelyhood that it will result in a voided warranty.
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Companies that track you will go to extreme measures to uniquely identify you, and then harvest as much data about you as possible. It is not unreasonable to think that Google (a well known tracker) would leverage this data about you - especially as other sources of data start to go away thanks to the GDPR.
This does not need to take us into the hell that we currently have of constantly asking if you are ok with cookies. That is what web developers have chosen to do because they do not want to give up on their tracking lifestyle. They can easily note that I do not want any tracking and never ask me again. But by asking again (and again, and again,....) they expect that the average user will break and just say "ok already". If you don't like the harassment of "can we track you please" dialogs, stop visiting that site. Bonus points for telling them why. This is not the only way we have to satisfy the privacy concerns, in fact it is a clear indication that the site does not want to respect your privacy at all.
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You can easily link to Wikipedia and allow the user to decide if they want to click on it with no risk of running afoul of the GDPR. This is not threatening the webinees of the web.
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The website developer wrote the script that told the browser to send the data. Just like any other data collection, the web site write the code that causes the data to be collected, and the browser in executing that script sends the data.
The prosecution claims this was murder…
So should the cup that killed the cop be charged with murder? Seems like that would be a prerequisite for felony murder. Cop/prosecutor:“You’re guilty of felony murder” me:”who was murdered, who murdered them, and can you prove it?” Ok, and once we get the murderous cop charged, the the rest of the cops clearly should get hoisted on the felonious murder charges too - if I (who had nothing to do with that group) am going to be lumped in with them, then we as a group need to face the consequences of our felonious behaviors.
I know, logic doesn’t apply here… quite sad.
How many corrections does your news source issue per month?
One of my go to indicators for a news source's trustworthiness is how often they publish corrections and retractions. If a news source never makes mistakes - then they are full of it. It is not humanly possible. only corrects itself when there is a threat (or successful) lawsuit, they are equally full of it. If they frequently make corrections, that is a sign that they do actual research and are interested in facts. Go check your favorite news source, and if you cannot find any corrections, or if you find a few but can also see that they were sued on the subjects they correct, then maybe you should consider a better researched source.
How hard will this really be to bypass?
Also - since this is something that HD is just grafted on to a tool that 100% works without it, how hard will it be for someone to open the tool and remove what was added? It's not like this is highly integrated and removing it would require replacing some key component. And to my last question of what this does to your warranty, if it is a simple add on, it will be simple to remove. If the installation attempts to make it harder to remove it is highly likely that the installation will have some scaring effect on the original hardware - increasing the likelyhood that it will result in a voided warranty.
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