at first I read that one header as “We’re Not Changing”
“Even if they are not linked, services can still share data” Isn’t that the whole point!?
In theory, they can’t share ad targeting data. That said, with the DMA they should not be able to share “data to effectively make you able to complete tasks”, that’s the point. Interoperability between Gmail and YouTube should equal the interoperability between Gmail and Peertube or somesuch.
Does that mean i can use a different email?
Protonmail for example
You can already use Protonmail for a Google account, It’s what I do.
EU, aka the illusion of changes to make good impression while catching 🤝US dollars at the EU parliment
Least cynical american.
Cool, so its either: do YOU want to use shared data across your accounts as well, or only us (google)?
The loopholes are ridiculous, not to mention that they are obviously going to just break everything for you if you don’t comply anyway, but there’s so many things they could do to throw sand in the gears- what matters is that the EU is doing something, it’s reacting, it’s trying to fight it and keep our common European values and not let foreign corporate empires dictate how things are done here, futile as the prospect may seem.
Text transcript for the blind :
Keep your Google services, like YouTube, linked?
YouTube, Google Search, Google Play, Ad services, Google Chrome, Google Shopping & Google Maps.
New laws in the EU mean that, starting on March 6, 2024, Google needs your consent if you want to keep these services linked. When linked, they can share data with each other and with all other Google services to :
- Combine 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 at g.co/privacypolicy
Things to know : Other settings let you control whether you see personalized content or ads. Linking Google services is not about sharing your data with third-party services.
What data is used : All types of personal data described in Google’s Privacy Policy can be shared across linked Google services.
What’s not changing : Even if they’re not linked, Google services can always share data with each other to prevent fraud and abuse, effectively help you complete tasks, and for certain other purposes.
You’re in control. You can change your choices anytime in your Google Account. Choices will take effect on March 6, 2024. Learn more about linked services. (I don’t have the link to transcribe).
Here’s a relevant article : https://www.androidauthority.com/google-services-dma-3402702/
Oh man thank you I always forget, sorry, didn’t think about it.
Just dont use screenshots if not needed.
Btw what censor tool is that?
Ha ha none, that’s me getting creative so you guys have something pretty to look at while also hiding my personal info. I can’t help myself starting to doodling away when I go to delete shit with GIMP.
But I will always prefer screenshots because I think it is more impactful and provides visual context to show what’s going on, a picture says more than a thousand words as it were.
Good human
Remember! YOU are in control.
Unless we made it so you are not but think you are. We value your privacy. Like literally. We value your private shit in dollaridoos. Lots of’em. So we’re taking your privacy seriously. Seriously to the bank that is.
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Your profile pic put your comment in the right light.
An efficient solution would to just stop using Google’s services all together. That way they can’t spy on you so easily and make a profile from your internet habits.
There are plenty of alternatives to Google services in the opensource realm.
De-googling is not a simple task, it takes actual man-hours of proper work to be done, especially when we’re talking decades of accounts et c. Even when and if that gets done, what are you going to do about Android? And even if you sort that out, there are a hundred other digital ware that would need the same treatment.
At some point the task becomes insurmountable, it seems, not to mention you already need to have a solid technical background to have a chance of pulling it off.
I would love some suggestions if you have them, but frankly I am getting too old for this shit, I’ve fought it all my life but I’m just the one person and my time is limited you know what I’m sayin.
Downvoted for picture of text. Please link to the page and transcribe it if you want to post a picture too. Blind people can’t read images of text.
You have a point, but you said it pretty abrasively.
I’ve made a transcript here.Link is broken. Please add transcription to the body of the post
What client are you using? I’ll try linking it in a way your client can handle.
Good person. Thanks.
I do not understand the downvotes. Accessability is inclusiveness.
Lemmy’s kinda shit on the alt-text front, too. The Mastodon/ActivityPub community is far better about this.
Lemmy needs to add real alt-text functionality, putting in the body works, sure; but it’s not going to work out for posts that have both post text and images in the body. Such as someone posting text along with additional screenshots.
Alt-text should be hidden visually, but readable by screen readers.
Not sure what you mean. Just type the alt in markdown
[](https://example.com/some/page)Doing it in markdown isn’t a great solution, that’s more for hover text then anything. Having a bunch of text in markdown Alt-text clogs the hell out of the post body and makes it harder to copy the raw markdown if you’re not trying to grab a fuck load of additional text.
See HTML Accessibility.
Here’s an extreme case example why markdown isn’t great for this purpose. Also, not every client renders the markdown the same, Lemmy has no standardized markdown syntax/implementation. For example, my client won’t render your example the way you think it will; it renders the link at the end in text and has a
[before the image, and my client hates new lines in markdown alt-text. If you use\in the alt-text, it render the image twice, and if you use a blank newline it will not render at all.
HTML is a pretty damn nailed down standard and can already properly handle Alt-text.
Huh. Would that be a good solution, like a hover popup you mean? I’m not into CSS. Will screen readers get that? Shouldn’t be crazy difficult to make a bot otherwise, screen reader scans images for text on request by poster or automatically. We have bots here right?
No. Basically just hidden/invisible text that only a screen reader would see.
You’d just upload an image and type alt-text in a box, hit enter and the alt-text would be added to the HTML of the page but not rendered and the image would be added to the markdown as usual, when the screen reader gets to the image, instead of just skipping over it, it’d pull the hidden text from the HTML and read that.See HTML Accessibility.
That sounds like a great idea, in that case, but I know 0 about HTML, I just make systems run. Where do we go to suggest something like it? Lemmy is a whole new thing for me so…
Dude I’m just a drunk gal with an internet connection, you would not believe the things that slip my mind on a daily basis.
I am always respectful and try to mind, but I’m not exactly omniscient either, I can barely hold my life together know what I mean? So sorry for no subtitles, but there are tons of super cool people here who do it voluntarily so that everyone can enjoy the knowledge of how deeply we are being spied on by Google. And our fight against it!
It’s not an indictment of you, it’s an indictment of Lemmy. AP has alt-text in the format. AP clients - almost uniformly - have space for alt text whanever pictures are posted, and the best of the remind and encourage you to add alt text when you post pictures. Lemmy provides no facility for alt-text; for a platform developed in this century and largely populated by inclusive liberals, it’s a rather shocking omission.
My bad, sorry for the oversight. No pun intended.
Good. The more people realize is being spied on, the better.
So basically nothing changed.
Things most certainly changed. Now google has to beg me for it. Come on Google, beg. But maybe your point is that resistance is futile and why even try to fight it just give in and let it happen. I don’t know but mama didn’t raise no quitter, I don’t know about you but to each his own eh.
It’s not good enough. Google must DIE <3 ◉‿◉
Waiting for the perfect solution that might never come without doing anything in the meantime accomplishes nothing.
I do plenty.
You still using Gmail? 🧐I was talking about law making not you specifically.
Just ban Google already 😈
This is the EU slowly doing what it can.
“Kill cancer already”? Ok, for that we need to do testing and advanced chemistry for a long time. This IS how you get rid of it, there is no other way.
This is one battle in the long war, my friend. If you want to kill them, these kinds of steps are absolutely essential. You can’t just go back in time and snipe Hitler, you have to fight on the beaches, on the fields and in the streets, and you must never surrender.
The next thing we need to outlaw is this marketing bs.
They are asking if you want to link services so they can share data. In the bottom bit they say they’re gonna share anyway for „other reasons“.
Same as with banking services, I want to see how much money they will make from selling my data.
Does Google allow de-linking between accounts that were linked previously, then? I’ve seen people holding into a Google account just because it’s keeping hostage other accounts they actually care about.
Yay no seperate accounts anymore. Like, as if it is hard to create a Google Account…
If the thing that’s shared is sso then I’m fine with that, but I would also not mind having 3+ accounts if it meant less tracking
Si señor?
