From the Outlook Android app
WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY!*
^*no^ ^we^ ^don't.^ ^not^ ^even^ ^a^ ^little.^
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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No, I think they're being literal. There is value that they want in your privacy.
- We value your privacy (in a twisted way)
- Our company's value (increases with access to) your privacy
Or the idea of the title and text was to create a paradox like: The following statement is true. // The preceding statement is false.
We value your privacy. We're selling it.
Gold
797 partners? Might need to get tested haha
There will be some lawsuit in the future somewhere in Europe. And the judge will rightfully rule that you can't get an "informed consent" from your users for 800 tracking companies just by letting them click a button with dark patterns.
Europe for sure. USA? Better chance of the president smoking rock at the state of the union. Land of the fee and all that.
I respect that you want it to be a small birthday party.
Me and my 718 closest friends will be there..
"We respect your privacy to the extent the law requires us to. Maybe."
Anything ran by Microsoft is a privacy concern (includes Windows, Teams, npm, GitHub)
npm?! Since when?
Looks like early last year. News to me, too
Yup. It’s privately held, not a community or non-profit-held registry.
"We value your privacy". Proceeds to not value any kind of privacy at all
At least they are (forced to be) honest ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I like the rest of the wording, too. They'd like to process arbitrary data from the device. And third parties act out of their own motivation as long as it is their legitimate interest...
Use 'REJECT ALL'.
REJECT ALL button doesn't often work as you'd expect. Websites/Apps can (and do) still approve so called "legitimate interest" option. The only way to be sure is to click "manage preferences" and dig in to check if legitimate interest is enabled. Sometimes you'll see "object all" in there, but you will find notice that some websites require to manually disable legitimate interest for each of the hundreds of partners manually.
Hehe, keep up spreading that important info 💪✌️. Most people aren't aware and this practice should be illegal. Reject ALL... Every word they say is just a fucking lie.
That's why I reject all in Firefox settings along with wiping everything at close
I guess 'Reject All' means just 'reject all of the above', and there are are additional terms that are binding, they just spared you from handling those with this popup, or why is that kind of thing legal?
What's worse is when it's accept all or manage preferences, and you manually have to turn off cookies for all 718 partners individually, every time you open the app.
Consent-o-matic automates that for you
So does uninstalling and not using it
Not for apps.
"We valuated your privacy", more like
They do infact value your privacy. Only to them it is of low value
The correct syntax for embedding images is:
[title] is technically [alt text] for readers and vision impaired, so the title should be more of a description of the image.
Use Fairmail/ K-9 mail instead.
Is this Facebook?
It's Outlook trying to be like Facebook
I guess I appreciate that there's a "reject all" button and it's not grayed out... Not sure if it's because they were required to not hide it, though.
Hundreds of partners is very common in news paper sites
"If you have to ask, you do not respect my privacy"
Please dont post pictures of text without linking to the source or transcribing it. Blind folks can't read it.
Genuine question, can screen readers not parse image text in 2024? I personally use some image text to text copy programs on Linux to help speed up my development workflow, so it seems good screen readers have already had this for years?
Ocr can be pretty hit and miss depending on the font, image quality, etc
That's why F-Droid exists.
I'd say they're not lying. They do value your privacy. It's making them, and 797 of their closest friends, a lot of money.
whoever put that "reject all"s are mandatory should be getting praised.
it would suck to individually reject those 797 "partners".