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#ianal

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when it comes to people completely failing at all things #legal, I’m never surprised – just constantly disappointed…

these folks are an Australian company using a text messaging contact widget delivered by a US company, using boilerplate disclaimers required by a US law (TCPA) that isn’t applicable in Australia, linking to T&Cs that are applicable to the US, with (of course 🙄) US spelling of their crappy boilerplate

it’s clowns all the way down, I’m afraid 🤪🤪🤪

(and don’t even get me started on their provider’s use of “AI” bullshit in their contact widget – even their T&Cs make it clear that it’s prone to hallucination & it’s on their customers’ if that causes them problems 🤣😂🤣 )
 
 
 
^ noting, of course, that #IANAL | #IANYL - infosec.exchange/@itgrrl/11298 💁‍♀️

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@ErikUden Nochmal zur Liegebescheinigung: Meine Frau hatte Anfang 2024 auch einen Krankenhausaufenthalt mit anschließender Genesungszeit aufgrund einer geplanten OP, da hat sie auch die Liegebescheinigung eingereicht und das war alle kein Problem, weder beim AG noch bei der KK.

Also: Dein AG hat nix in der Hand dich fristlos zu kündigen. #ianal

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@ErikUden Perfekt, dann sollte beim Gütetermin zur Kündigungsschutzklage ja genug "Munition" zur Verfügung stehen.

Achja, alles #ianal übrigens. Bin nur auch gerade betriebsbedingt gekündigt worden und hatte gerade selber recherchiert und anwaltliche Beratung. Immerhin gab's bei mir auch eine Abfindung. War alles soweit fair, aber natürlich trotzdem scheiße. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Gute Besserung und viel Erfolg!

On Linux I've tried/used the following browsers to replace Firefox:

- Zen (Firefox)
- Floorp (Firefox)
- Librewolf (Firefox)
- Vivaldi (chromium)

For the last several months I've been using Floorp and am happy with it. I use Librewolf for accessing Meta.

On Android I've used Firefox for day to day and Waterfox for accessing Meta.

IANAL: my concern is how much of the new Mozilla TOS is directly applicable to Firefox forks.

The new TOS reads like Mozilla is legally allowed to 'tee' anything you upload to their own information horde, including anything binary.

Also, something I've noticed is that sometimes when Mozilla upstream makes TOS/marketing/affiliate changes via about:config changes those changes get pushed downstream and if the downstream team misses it in the rush to get the new version out the door you may end up with these settings re-enabled.

I tried Vivaldi yesterday. Ad blocking isn't sufficient to use it as a daily driver browser. Unusable for me.

Eyes to the future for open source browser engines.

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@cliffwade

I don't see anything particularly odious about those TOS, unless I'm missing something. (#IANAL, obviously)

I don't see an alternative. Certainly not anything Chrome/Chromium/Blink-based.

I try to use terminal browsers where I can, but I doubt too many people are up for that.

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@derickr @michael or not. Just say you don't have "significant" number of UK users so out of scope.
#OFCOM point blank refused on call today to give a number/percentage/way to calculate so just decide if you are smaller than a tenth of a tenth of a tenth Facebook, it's fine.

My maths says less than 3 million isn't therefore "significant" by any global standard, or less than 60k by UK standards.

#dailyIdioms

"On utilise également le terme « jurisprudence prétorienne » lorsque la décision rendue présente un caractère créateur, lorsqu’elle supplée une loi incomplète ou floue, et constitue alors une véritable source de droit."

(Et par extension, #IANAL mais j'ai l'impression qu'on l'utilise parfois comme synonyme de "jurisprudentiel")

It is too easy to forget, especially given the spinelessness of our press these days, but Trump could not succeed in his evil machinations without lawyers to carry out every single one of his illegal orders and specious lawfare. The legal profession either has no conscience or no soul, not sure which, but they're definitely missing something. #ianal

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@schmaker pokud neuchováváš data, která bys mohl použít ke sledování osob. Že návštěvník je z Prahy Malešic a má Firefox je z hlediska GDPR asi ještě v pohodě, konkrétní IP adresa je asi lehce za hranou, protože jsou lidé, kteří ji mají pevnou.

Jsou weby, které žádné souhlasy nechtějí a legálně. Z hlavy třeba github.com. Když se člověk přihlásí, implicitně dává souhlas ke sledování. Co jiného by bylo přihlášení, než rozpoznání kdo to je?

Tohle nařízení je za mě spíš svoboda. #IANAL