Ok so exactly how mbin spots cross posts at the moment. But combining the comment sections is a cool idea. Obviously requires your server to be subscribed to the different communities, but still cool 👍

What happens when three different users post libks to the same article? Or when the test is different? Basically how do you match these posts?

Here in Germany, a non-profit is not allowed to do any profit

That is just not true… You are not allowed to pay your profits to anyone, but investing it or building reserves is absolutely permitted and a really important thing to do especially if you’re dependent on donations…

So, now, I am not willing to give them any more slag. They have to change

I agree, but that will never make me use Chrome or any Chromium based browser. Like probably a lot of people here I do not use vanilla Firefox, but rather LibreWolf and the like

The company itself is not for profit. The CEO gets payed way too much, but a for-profit company would return money to the owners (mostly shareholders/investors), which Mozilla is not

100% agreed

(you should also listen to the people with knowledge, which are the legal people in this instance)

You should not need legal people explaining the change of mission statements or FAQs… Imo Mozilla just really sucks at PR (it not just this time)

In an aggregated and anonymized manner

Actually no, I don’t want to hold both to the same standard. Google is a for profit company. I expect them to do shady shit. I expect more out of Mozilla. Doesn’t mean that they screwed this up the way the media says they did. They screwed up the communication big time

As I have no legal clue this is my source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bTquKjzos&t=151s

I think the fault lies in their online stuff. Things like their VPN, Pocket, FF Sync, etc… Also they collect the aggregated and anonymized ad click thing in the new tab page

Maybe I glanced over it too much, but as far as I know the problem is this exact line which is still in the law:

by the business to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration

Context:

“… selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.”

What is this “or other valuable consideration”? Could be anything which makes it very very very very broad

If what they have been doing for a while, is now legally “selling your data” in California they just cannot state “we will never sell your data”, as the definition of what is meant by “selling data” exactly is not the same everywhere…

They should not have deleted that statement and just clarify it instead of their absolutely messy changes…

As far as I understand it, yes possibly… But if their definition is very weird to me… I now watched 2 30 minute long videos about it and still don’t understand what the problem is exactly…

What I did get though is that they majorly screwed up their PR

https://youtu.be/-8bTquKjzos That sums it up. The definition of what counts as “selling data” changed…

The mozilla thing seems to be mostly bad PR, but yeah…

The same can be said about gmail and it is the same kind of problem here. Yes lemmy.world is not a profit orient it giant, but it is still a problem when one actor has this power over a federated network. (the scale of the problem is of course a lot larger with gmail)

mbin has had an accessible API for a few months now. You can use Interstellar with for example (not on iOS thuogh)

I absolutely see the problem, but making users host their own server to host their actor profile and posts is just too complicated. I mean why not just host the whole AP server then… Additionally it reminded me a lot of Activity Pods

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