SomeGermanGuy

The law was made public two years ago, to give companies time to get compliant. It actually goes into effect next friday.

Because nobody gave a duck, because there was no fine (or they were laughable).

Now that we have a single law for a 500 million customer market with a substantial fine, things start to shift to the better.

we need to agree that the bulk of the last 20 years of startups business models are broken

I agree.

If a startup is build on selling my data, I am more willing to pay a fee then to have them sell my data.

If we could go back to WhatsApp having a fee instead of Facebook using and selling my (meta)data, I would switch anytime. If Telegram starts raising a fee for using their messenger without anybody reading my messenges/location/... I am all in.

What does competitors stop doing that now? No business is 100% compliant in any law. If they want they can just for the sake of it bury you in legal work already.

See Google vs Oracle. Apple vs Google.

I have the same experience. All those forgotten accounts. Now I can just go on and delete them.

Super basic stuff.

Thanks for this article. I wholeheartedly support your stance of: > In that case please shut down or do not serve EU customers

For the last few years I have been a big fan of the Motorola smartphones. I just bought a Moto G5 Plus. Basically has everything you wish for, but the removable battery.

It is nearly stock Android and has a good mix of specs. I have everything on (Wifi, Bluetooth (running a MiBand 2), GPS. I have a moderate usage and plug in the phone in the evening between 50 and 70%. There is Zero Bloatware on the thing. The fingerprint reader actions are just great. I have a work iPhone and caught myself using the same gestures on the iPhone, I even think they are better than the iPhone ones.

Before that I had a Moto G (1st Gen) and even that did last me a whole day without a problem. I just replaced it because my mother broke her phone, so she got the Moto G and I had a reason to buy the beauty Moto G 5 Plus.

I would recommend going for the plus, due to better specs. Runs smoothly and I have currently no point to complain. (Okay maybe missing compass, which makes finding the ISS in the night sky a bit hard. You also can't use augmented reality apps very much, because they use the compass for orientation (like flightradar24 or google googles)

Input a picture and a song and create a gif/video... That would be crazy great.

It is not allowed to listen to radio transmissions you aren't the destination of in Germany and apperently in the UK.

So listening to policeradio, AirTrafficControl or anything similar is prohibited by law.

https://forums.liveatc.net/listener-forum/german-atc/

There is a open source alternative: https://www.nsupdate.info You can roll your own or just use the one they setup. https://github.com/nsupdate-info/nsupdate.info

The project is well maintained and they focus on security.

These are very good points here.

This looks great, I will try it when I switch to letsencrypt.

Isn't it either way best practise to better be sorry than to be safe? So the second approach is as far as I can see favoured by the community, because it declutters the code and keeps it simple.