I am with you regarding the big ones. But what about smaller media outlets and journalists to try to make a living on their own ? We need them. More then the big ones. Then the solution is to just ignore all the big ones and read the smaller ones. With ads or paying for it.

I was talking about paywall removers not adblockers in that sentence

We didn’t care. We were the hosting provider nor the news outlets. But we had close contact to our customers. And a lot of the smaller customers had a hard time to even survive. The primary source of income was print until paywals came around. Some customers never had print and had to close down with the surge of ad blockers

That is true and false. Adblock plus takes money for the acceptable afs program, yes. But there are clear guidelines about the ads. Containing criteria for privacy, size in relation to content and more.

I work in IT for 20 years now. Half this time my salary was paid for by ads:

My company hosted big german news outlets. All money they made online was from ads.

More adblockers meant less income so their required more ads just to come out without losing money.

ABP tried to break this cycle.

Now we are having paywals, and paywal breakers. And at this point this is outright stealing.

If adblockers would allow ads that adhere to the acceptable ads criteria, the world would be a better place. Less paywals, less ads and maybe some companies would pay their employees a little bit more.

I just got my BMW i5. The car is provided by my employer. But I would buy it myself. It is well thought out, has a usable dashboard l, head up und so much convenient stuff.

Also, the build quality is great. Compared to the garbage provided by tesla it is a different world

UK, Germany, France, Ukraine, Spani, Italy, … should I go on?

It is, in most of the civilized world anyways

Sry France, but we here in Germany need out policy to hunt cannabis consumers know that it is legal to consume!

I never did. In my 25 years of using and working with computers, my only social media accounts where Twitter (deleted since 5 years), reddit (deleted) and now the fediverse.

And I never give people my private mobile number if I know that they use meta apps

The coalition wants to implement model regions, where commercial delivery chains, from farming to the counter, should be tested for 5 years.

This will require another law of course.

The goal is to show the EU that legalizing helps better to archive the goals of the prohibition then the prohibition.

This was a joke for 420. I know that this is also his birthday. Just don’t care in this context

The initial drafts proposed canabis shops and licenses. But the EU declined it. So we get the max that is currently possible. Yes that law has some strange parts, but nothing too concerning.

And if everything goes as planned, we will get shop’s in the future

But, it starts first if April not 20th of April! Amateurs

By what means? Install Spyware on the kids device? Spyware that may have vulnerabilities and can lead to even greater risks of the kids? Smart idea …

The verification process using the German eID is. It is cryptologic secured, no middle man and the site owner only gets the information, if the age limit is fulfilled. Just because you can not imagine it means not that it does not exist.

And no, you don’t can trust the government on such things. That is why the software stack is open source and the functionality can be verified by the citizens. The CCC was involved to verify this …

There are ways to do anonymous authentication methods. Just because companies want to it an claim otherwise it is not true. I was involved in building such tools.

Also, just because those sites host porn, should they be treated differently then other companies?

There is a good reason for THIS EU law. Others are utterly bullshit, but have a look on social media. Look at those boys, yes boys, 12 years and younger, that fall for this alpha male bullshit, or the racist, right-wing propaganda. It is reasonable to protect kids from such influences. And laws, forbidding kids younger then x to use suge sites, must be enforceable.

EDIT: For anonymous age verification: The German ID van be used for such things: it is nfc, your mobile phone can be the reader, or you buy an nfc reader for your pc. The client software is open source, and it sends only the requested data. For example “older then X”.

An such a system is to be rolled out (or maybe even done?) In the whole EU

To all those “bad EU” commentators: the European regulations in this area make sense. Parents or individuals have no chance against those huge companies.

And most eu regulations helped the US citizens too. I just throw in apple and usb c

Can’t read half of it :(

I get your point. But to be fair: for landlords where massive subventions in place. This program ended amd was not renewed because of lack of interest.

But at least for new buildings, a policy to force charging stations at every parking lot would be a good idea

I totally forgot one essential fact: the reason for DNS over HTTPS itself was perfectly valid: ISP’s in the US are using DNS lookups of their customers for advertising. The idea is to prevent this kind of privacy breach. And it is very effective against it.

Just rye ideological driven implementation was bs