Its not ok when it’s an American company, and America has a long way to go on this.

However, enforcement is impossible when China is the one controlling it. There is no limit to what they are allowed to do with the data.

China is banning any Chinese personal data from leaving the country because they are afraid we would handle the data the same way they do foreign data.

Race has nothing to do with it. Dictatorship does. It’s bad if any dictatorship or unfriendly country does it.

Bad precedent of banning widely popular apps that do data mining and influence and that are controlled by non friendly dictatorships? If VK was popular in the US, should it get banned, or should we just let it do its things?

You’re getting downvoted but you’re right.

Giving so much information and influencial power to a dictatorship is crazy. China is not a friendly country, they are on the brink of a war with Taiwan, they commit genocides, and have the power to rewrite history.

Sure, Musk and Zuckerberg also influence elections, but at least they’re under American law. TikTok is not just “some” Chinese company. It is controlled by China.

I know they do, but it’s lacking so many languages.

I hope Mozilla can benefit of a good local translation engine that could come out of it as well.

Thank you.

Did you think Amazon didn’t know how Honey operates?

Difficult to prove the latter of course, but out of the two, it’s not what most people seem to be complaining the most about.

You’d need the first one to get big enough to pull up the second one anyways.

That would arguably be even worst.

I’m struggling to understand how everyone thought Honey made money. I have assumed from the first time I saw an ad for them that this is how they operate. It’s not like it’s difficult to prove or disprove either.

Meh, Plex is also very good at fetching subtitles automatically.

Nevermind, I confused subtitles and STL files.

You know what? I think you’re right. I got my wires crossed. He means 3d printing or machine files most likely.

Usually those are fetched from websites like opensubtitles or tvsubtitles

If you use the *arr services, look up Bazaar

Subtitles

Like Lemmy or Mastodon, BlueSky was made with the idea of federation. While BlueSky is not there yet, federated services are inherently very easy to scrape.

Maybe it’s time for people to understand that anything they post/vote/comment/like should be considered public domain.

Very fitting!

Don’t just “delete” Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.

You should be able to do that with a ublock origin filter.

Maybe ask on the community: !ublockorigin@lemmy.ml

Is the database of websites installed locally in the extension or is it calling home for every website I visit?