Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by dylz on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:51PM
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For the last bit, giphy basically lies to serve ads and tracking. A giphy .gif URL is not actually a .gif, or an image file even.
Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by wizzwizz4 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:41PM
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> Everyone using it is an adult,
It's the primary platform for entire schools, now. Whoopee. So you're going to get lots of new child protection features (that fail at their intended purpose) added.
Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by jimnotgym on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:41PM
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There is pretty fine grained control for admins over that kind of stuff though.
Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by wizzwizz4 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:54AM
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Some of which fails GDPR compliance, and violates Microsoft's own privacy statement: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement (see the Education sections, where they say they don't collect lots of info that's collected by Teams).
Oh and the most insulting part is how they treat its users like children. You can use giphy to embed a gif but if you search for any “bad” words it says no results. Search for fuck, and it hides them. Everyone using it is an adult, why apply this conservative boomer “nO sWeARIng alLOweD”?
To top it off if you instead copy paste a giphy url it doesn’t embed that properly either!