@dotjayne@tech.lgbt happy to be on a team that shares this sentiment! The company at large... Can't win em all

@dotjayne @lieter In fact, you then know definitively that this is a feature, but for you and against your users.

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Opt-out is abuse.

I've said it many times and nobody has challenged this yet.

@dotjayne stg I'm gonna put this on my tomb stone at this point

@dotjayne what a good rule of thumb

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I know this makes me an extremist, but until the entire Internet is retooled around an Opt-In philosophy, I refuse to play.

@dotjayne I really hate how the GDPR "legitimate interest" purpose has been hijacked into legitimising opt-out.

"We assert without evidence that it's in our legitimate interest to collect this data, but you can always object!"

@dotjayne There are a few circumstances where opt-out is preferable — organ donation, for example. The criterion should be ‘ is it good for society as a whole?’

@dotjayne yeah but what if Facebook pays?!

@dotjayne@tech.lgbt it shouldn't be referred to as a "feature" but a "clause"

@dotjayne@tech.lgbt people just don't opt-in into features though

Like, fuck, let's stop making security updates for windows, because if windows didn't push them, way too little people would opt-in for it to matter.

99% stay on defaults. Tech tweakers that go through every knob is the minority.

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Counterpoint: vaccines

@dotjayne also it shouldn't be called „feature“ then.