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The Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposed a fine of €6,500,000 on Grindr for not collecting users' valid consent for sharing data with third parties for profiling and advertising purposes from the Grindr App.

Particularly interesting is that it is not allowed under GDPR to have a free version of an app with the condition that it shares personal data (in this case for targeting and profiling for ads) as the consent of the user is not freely given in this case - in a "Take it or leave it" situation, consent cannot be seen as freely given.

As an European that had to deal with GDPR for his own projects this is really no surprise imo. Good that a court rules on this.

Well non-profits like NOYB are starting to create automatic systems to send GDPR complaints to non-compliant websites.

"Blame it on the GDPR? Many internet users mistake this annoying situation as a direct outcome of the GDPR, when in fact companies misuse designs in violation of the law. The GDPR demands a simple “yes” or “no”, as reasonable people would expect, but companies often have the power over the design and narrative when implementing the GDPR."

See: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-is...

> It works much in the same way as AGPL

I'm not 100% knowledgeable on the topic but wasn't the issue with (A)GPL that even linking libraries in the runtime to your project would mean that your project can't be proprietary?

With EUPL this doesn't seem to be the case:

From https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/news/eupl-and-pr...

> This makes no obstacle for linking Code A with another software component (Code B) that could be proprietary. There is no kind of “viral effect” resulting from the EUPL licence, in so far linking is done for interoperability. The portions of Code A that are strictly necessary for interoperability may be reproduced in Code B without copyright infringement. The resulting “A-B solution”, which could be commercial, will include the two modules under their relevant licences. This is resulting from interpreting European law and case law[1].

Exact same thing happend with Discord for me. Just that I had no way to get it unlocked. I don't trust that anyone actually looked into it.

Sorry if I'm daft, could you/someone explain why one would want to use both at the same time for the same system?

One thing that makes sense: if you go down use polling so you can work at your own pace. But this isn't really at the same time. When/why does it make sense to do both simultaneously?

May just be because Max Schrems filed a complaint for the french data protection authority against the tracking id.

Max Schrems (with his group noyb) filed a complaint against the "Android Advertising Id" / "Google Advertising Id" at the french data protection authority sometime around april. May be related.

I actually think it's an interesting change and might make my youtube a bit better for me personally. Let's see how this goes.

Uncle Bob has actually written a blog post about Dan's presentation: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/10/18/Solid-Releva...

While it's technically not open-sourcing code itself it's human nature in my opinion. As a founder you want to support and don't upset your customers, even if they are using the free version of your product. Yes, you could simply not fulfill these requests or not help these customers, but I think for most people it will still introduce stress. There may be people who can deal easily with this, but I think it's natural to be stressed by this and run after things that you shouldn't.

Still I agree that it's probably possible to open-source without these problems and that this is not a complete compelling argument for every case. For me personally at least not open-sourcing at the beginning (like the author did) would probably be preferred as well for a solo-founded project.

The good thing is that I could now fast charge my pixel 4a with my MacBook charger as the protocol allowed the charger to pick the right output.