Remember what Google Groups did to Usenet? We should be wary.

Let's make farting in public a crime.

https://www.vice.com/...

But there won't be a general election until 2025. And a week is a long time in politics.

Best of the year, in January? 🤔

I remember it filling groups with non-text posts which could not be read by Usenet clients, among other things.

GDPR is an EU law, and cookie warnings existed before GDPR anyway, as a result of EU law.

People on Mastodon are complaining about people talking about twitter, and posting their complaints to the hashtag #twitter which is very odd, as they could filter it.

I expect there will be filters on Lemmy eventually.

I don't think everyone always breaks the speed limit, but probably they do at some point during every journey. They knew this went they introduced the 20mph speed limit but they introduced it anyway because they thought it would reduce the average speed by a few mph.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/...

Scone should be pronounced scone. Scon is unacceptable.

Take it to a witch-burning.

I discovered google had recorded all the hashtags I had visited on mastodon. I thought I had turned off this recording, but there were additional categories which I think they have added since the last time I was there.

Of course the UK government and ISP record everything too, by URL, so that includes hashtags, even this post has a unique URL.

I never thought I would find myself living in Dickensian England.

If it is software how do you know who has implemented it and whether the instance respects privacy?

If I am reading Google Translate's English translation of your post, am I reading human authored text or AI authored text?

They also force you to use cookies if you don't want to see them over and over.

Yes but when you see a cookie warning from a website it stores your choice in a cookie. So if you clear your cookies out then you see the warning again the next time you visit the website. So you don't have much choice but to accept all cookies. Each website uses differently named cookies, so can't simply solve it. There are extensions which try, like "I don't care about cookies" but they break things and they have to have a list of websites. There will always be some which aren't on there. The EU could have stipulated what the name of the cookie should be, or stipulated that it should be a browser option like "do not track", but the EU is a massive corrupt bureaucracy.

How can you have an objective opinion? All opinions are subjective, so the word subjective is superfluous. Also opinions are important, so the word 'just' is a misplaced attempt to diminish. So all you are left with is "That's your opinion" which goes without saying really.

Usenet? It's is still there, despite google's attempts to absorb it.

I should think there are many people who think Google Groups is Usenet, and they have to register with google to post on there. Recently I think they have removed the option to view the source of an article.