mariallery

This might well be by law, but in practise we don't see that, which i would argue is of higher meaning.

Just from an end user POV, would I be able to request from Stripe a logs for metadata about which type/how much of my personal data has been shared to the companies?

while i do love slack, it seems like ms teams was the iphone(smartphone) to blackberry. ... then again, not at all apples to apples, since ms was already mastering the corporate world.

"Regardless of account deletion attempts"? Seriously? First step of account deletion is, that Facebook deactivates the account, therefore, they should also know better to not send notifications. Why would they burden the user with notification settings, when the users wish/intent is clear enough? Spamming them with unwanted notifications is unethical behavior.

Because any of these law-abiding people owning a gun could snap some day and go rogue? I'd say that's a really good reason to reduce the guns availability.

It comes down to the context: yes, when poor John loses his dog, we can all understand, what you meant. However, Stallman did not lose anything, furthermore, he is successful and happy with his choices, therefore your "poor Stallman" comment is by definition condescension.

upvote for good sense of humor :-)

These kind of cases make me wonder, what ever happened to the common sense.. The (classical) Roman law was probably the best system the 'makers of law' ever came up to. After that, it only went downhill.

Thank you for pointing it out and for a well-written explanation. Took a quick look and Chromium seems to call them all 'extensions'.

Guess I was the silly one then, going to the local bookstore and getting my eyes full with tears of happiness: "Oh hey, they have the original(?) US-versions here in Germany!" :-)

PS: sorry for the naive style, haven' t mastered the sharky way of saying things (yet)

> c) disable any plugins really.

embarrasing to admit, but I've always wanted to believe one could at least trust plugins like Adblock Plus or Ghostery to protect ones mind and privacy a little.. now, reading Hacker News almost every day, I'm getting paranoid. is it a vulnerability to even use them?

"If everyone took TorrentFreak's position on piracy, Game of Thrones would make no money no matter how popular it was."

Sure? I actually did buy the books and am going to buy the DVD-collections, just because I have seen it/read it, thanks to piracy. Somehow win-win situation.