MASTODON POLL -To show / defend a bit using sign that scraping user data is not ok? (no consent disclaimer or sign somewhere?)
MASTODON TO SHOW and defend (a bit) that scraping user data is not ok? (A 'no consent' disclaimer or sign somewhere?)
Mastodon should / could at least attempt to discourage sites from data scraping by putting a sign and notice (in the footer for example?)
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█ Yes / No / Maybe
to make any attempt to block those kinds of habits / not to leave it unchecked?
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Last poll (when it was more than 1 reply) = 6 people
Yes 66% / No 17% / Maybe 17%
2nd Last poll = 17 people
Yes 82% / No 12% / Maybe 6%
At least something to say to Google or other sites that this behaviour is not what Mastodon is for and its users are not allowing / wanting it UNLESS THEY SAY.
(We wanted to get away from these things right?)
ADDED INFO:
ℹ️ Also Eugene not wanting to encourage using better links for Mastodon (like instead of youtube links the option to use yewtu.be instead - so that milions of links FROM MASTODON are less Googlified (LESS $ AND DATA TRACKING) - so not being interested is a worry and future thing I think we need to use now
(Invidious and other software if you don't know is the same but blocks bad code and filters adverts from EXACTLY the same pages)
example:
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=R3ptZ1W-FRA
⬆️ same youtube link but the url before the video ID R3ptZ1W-FRA is different
same link with another server https://yewtu.be/watch?v=R3ptZ1W-FRA
After all Invidious Federation is similar to Mastodon and we should use them all to redirect to better links OR AT LEAST GIVE OPTION (nothing about Eugene)
See all the glorious instances here!
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=R3ptZ1W-FRA
MASTODON POLL -To show / defend a bit using sign that scraping user data is not ok? (no consent disclaimer or sign somewhere?)
@freeschool don't see the issue really if I make a public post. Public means it is out there for anyone to read and see. You'd expect though if it get quoted in a publication etc, that there is some attribution to the source (as a normal practice). Non-public posts should not really be scraped as they were not intended to be wide open.