Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by Mirioron on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:52AM
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Off topic: isn't this how user privacy works too though? People complain about companies like Google and Facebook "stealing their data," but it's their browsers sending out the data. If users don't want Google to have the data then they shouldn't send it to Google.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by brokenmachine on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:17PM
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This could have implications for Google.
Basically this example, if accepted in law, would mean that if you want your data to be private then Google would be expected to respect that, even if you sent them that data in the clear.
It's a ridiculous outcome.
Man standing on the sidewalk outside a store yells into the store at the shopkeeper “hey there, can I have some free fish?”
Shopkeeper yells back “sure!” and tosses a fish to the man on the sidewalk.
Add more yelling back and forth for TLS handshake.
At this point, the man on the sidewalk can do whatever he wants with the fish. It was freely given.