Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome
by MattPalmer1086 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:51AM
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>How is the CCPA stupidly-worded when that's what a layman would think "selling data" means?
Because it is the twisty logic that lawyers can apply which is relevant to mitigate legal risk, not what a layman would think.
Where I work, our lawyers are convinced that running our code in the cloud to run our service counts as "distribution" under the terms of open source licenses. Because a cloud employee might accidentally look at it or something? Who knows. A lawyer sees legal risk in things you or I don't; they should know I guess!
Because it is the twisty logic that lawyers can apply which is relevant to mitigate legal risk, not what a layman would think.
Where I work, our lawyers are convinced that running our code in the cloud to run our service counts as "distribution" under the terms of open source licenses. Because a cloud employee might accidentally look at it or something? Who knows. A lawyer sees legal risk in things you or I don't; they should know I guess!