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Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy

posted by on Sunday February 23 2020, @03:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the anything-not-illegal-is-compulsory dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Bleh. Apparently not caring what you do on other sites or even requiring any personal information isn't good enough for the state of Confusion^WCalifornia, so we have a shiny, new, temporary Privacy Policy posted on every page and linked at the top of the nav bar.

If you feel like prettying the language, layout, or whatever up before I get around to it, feel free to do so and submit a pull request.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 24 2020, @01:12AM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 24 2020, @01:12AM (#961639) Homepage Journal

    Use IPv6 if it bothers you. They most assuredly are not a trivial keyspace. And, yeah, I lie all the time. It's not like I have more than half a dozen other admins with vastly differing views on everything except our free speech policy reading the Meta stories.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Monday February 24 2020, @02:26AM (4 children)

    by edIII (791) on Monday February 24 2020, @02:26AM (#961675)

    Or use the TOR address. You guys got that right?

    For the record, part of why I'm not worried about this site's privacy policy, are the admins like you. I can give you shit about some things, but not for being a liar or a coward. I trust you guys.

    Is it just me, or is the grammar off here:

    Privacy Policy: We don't track anyone except on this site

    Does that mean you don't normally track people at all, unless they're on this site? :)

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    • (Score: 2) by Chocolate on Monday February 24 2020, @08:43AM

      by Chocolate (8044) on Monday February 24 2020, @08:43AM (#961751) Journal

      Or VPN. Just reconnect every few minutes.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 24 2020, @12:53PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 24 2020, @12:53PM (#961801) Homepage Journal

      We do but since none of us staff have a ToR setup that allows us to resolve .onion addresses, it could very well be broken at any given time and nobody would know until the WTF reports start coming in. Anyone who does go through all that trouble and feels like keeping it working is welcome to join staff and do so.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 24 2020, @01:00PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 24 2020, @01:00PM (#961804) Homepage Journal

      Sorry, didn't catch the question at the end. Switch "normally" with "ever". We track all kinds of things about everyone's interactions with this site (kind of necessary if we want to be able to put user names on comments and such) but nothing about their actions anywhere else. Hell, we don't even log referrers.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 29 2020, @03:57AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 29 2020, @03:57AM (#964506)

        Hell, we don't even log referrers.

        You should put that as the last sentence of the privacy policy.