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Yes, because the definition of “sell data” varies by jurisdiction, and they can’t guarantee that their usage of ads (eg the default sites that appear on the new tab page) does not fall under the definition of “sell data” in some jurisdictions. In particular, California’s CCPA is pretty strict and some use cases that aren’t actually selling data still fall under its definition of “sell data”.
They changed the wording of their policy for legal reasons. They haven’t actually changed what they do. They already updated the text of the policy to clarify.
This is a very good comment. I’d give you Lemmy Gold if such a thing existed. Thanks for posting it!
At least on Facebook you practically always choose friends to add, groups to join, pages to follow, etc. A surprisingly large number of Reddit users just stick to the default subreddits.
The US needs Obama 2.0
It’s way easier to do with Lemmy compared to Reddit. Because of its federated design, it’s trivial to subscribe to a stream of all activity in a community (posts, comments, upvotes, downvotes, moderation actions, etc) and do things when particular actions happen. Unlike Reddit, on Lemmy you can get a list of who upvoted or downvoted a post or comment.
And ideally your search engine of choice would be z-library or libgen
Several Steam games are DRM-free and don’t even need Steam to be installed to play them: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam
For those games, you can just make a copy of the game directory.
but the main ingredient remains the same: a mammoth.
Chromium is open source, so Google can’t cut them off.
I’ve never had issues with networking or drivers with my Brother printer. I don’t have any Apple devices, but on Windows and Linux I just use the drivers that come with the OS.
They do have Black Friday sales that make it a bit cheaper.
They also set up a system so that non-EU retail sellers can collect VAT directly on payment
That’s what Australia does too. Since the sellers already had their systems set up to handle it for Australia, it was probably easy for them to extend it to be used for the EU too.
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I agree, and don’t think there should be any tariffs.
Having said that, a US store that has to pay sales tax is never going to win over a foreign store that doesn’t have to pay sales tax. Even after shipping, the exact same product will likely be cheaper to buy from the European store.
If you buy something from Europe under the de minimis exception, there’s no tax applied at all. European countries/companies usually don’t tax buyers from outside the EU, and the US doesn’t tax it either.
Applying the same tax for both US and international purchases makes sense IMO. This is what Australia does: The sales tax rate is 10% across the whole country, and foreign stores that sell to Australians have to collect 10% tax and send it to the Australian government. Collecting taxes at the point of payment, even for foreign stores, avoids customers having to pay taxes separately when the package arrives in the country.
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Maybe that’s to make it seem more “real”? I’m not sure.
Premiumize is good, and supports Usenet too (which is very useful for rare/unpopular content)
Why does this article describe it as a “loophole”? It’s not a loophole; it was intentionally written into law.
That’s not what they actually did, though. They revised the wording to clarify:
For example, if you type something into the address bar, they need to have the permission to take your content (whatever you’ve typed) and send it to a third party (a search engine) to get autocompletion results.
Here’s the blog post that clarifies the changes: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/