First of all, the European Data Protection Board have shown they are more than willing to throw their weight around issue large fines and request audits. Second of all, have you actually looked at the types of data data brokers buy and sell? Massive records of IPs, and metrics.

Like above what “amazing treasure trove of personal data” are you giving up by clicking “I Accept”. Search queries of the Plex Free Movie\TV library, watch times of the same free library and whether you click on pre, mid or post roll ads. And who is going to buy and sell this? Ad providers who swear they are providing targeted advertising, but really have quotas and metrics to fill. They will end up showing irrelevant ads anyway, not because of some algorithm, but literally because the advertising industry does not give two shits about click through rates just that ads get shown.

There’s so much bitching in this thread like someone from AdSense or Outbrain has personally murdered a family member, but the truth is, these places are a grift. Annoying, yes, but mostly harmless. Oh and don’t try to pull “oh but governments can use this for surveillance” yes they could but as someone who has held a job a federal level tax office, they do not have the budget for profiling people like this and a corrupt government has cheaper and better options.

I will try my best to respect your opinion and what you think a “right to privacy” means but I have great trouble understanding the paranoia

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation?wprov=sfla1

They legally can’t for European users

Like all companies complying with European data collection laws, they can’t collect your data and have to delete anything they have collected.

I’m reading this as “Do you want the coup now or by the actual army when things have really gone to shit and people really are eating dogs and cats to stay alive?”

Mum wanted to make it everyone else’s problem that she can’t have a frank discussion about sex with her own son so probably been making poor judgements all the way through

Operation stapler?

Germany has the opportunity to do something really funny

I know you are not joking because it was only a week ago really good tech journalism site The Register did a walk through on making a dedicated Word 5.0 bootable USB

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/