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Founder at Input Objects GmbH, the makers of Wide Angle Analytics https://wideangle.co
RE: Plausible, you should have checked their compliance and terms and conditions after checking demo and using it. There are some gotchas to be aware of (lack of DPO, being one red flag). Going umami, matomo would have been cheaper and safer.
Can we finally start putting dimwit Apple execs in jail?
It is very close, but it not the same.
https://techgdpr.com/blog/difference-between-pii-and-persona...
When organisations seek to protect their user’s data, it is necessary that they understand the data they need to safeguard. Personal data, in the context of GDPR, covers a much wider range of information than personally identifiable information (PII), commonly used in North America. In other words, while all PII is considered personal data, not all personal data is PII.
When you say PII in context of GDPR you are simply using wrong term.
PII is not GDPR term. PII is used some US-specific acts, like HIPPA.
Did you mean Personal Data?
If I can avoid retarded Shopify ads, I would seriously consider. It would be nice change from bunch of individual Patreon subscriptions.
Spotify has enough power to say that podcasters should have ad free feed for premium subscribers or get deplatfromed. Obviously I would expect Spotify to pay podcasters.
The idea of paid, premium service with ads is ridiculous.
I could easily pay for WhatsApp if it wasnt Facebook/Meta.
With it being Meta I can be sure I will pay and still have my data and privacy violated.
Omg I literally puke with Shopify ads in podcasts.
Whats the point of paid, premium service like Spotify if I keep being served those stupid, dishonest and bordeline illegally deceiving Shopify ads every 15 minutes.
Ah yes, the circle jerk of HN focuses not on technology or news but how "Europe falls behind". Mods are silent as always.
Oh buddy, step our of your bubble. There are people out there who swear by LLM being a modern day mesahiah. And no, this are not just SV VCs trying to sell their investments.
Exactly.
Use OVH, Hertzner, Scaleway, etc.
Need managed services beyond scope of the above? There will be plenty of business (smaller and larger) offer you managed solution on top of other cloud providers.
Just exclude EU user. Block if from EU access and nobody will touch you.
You want to handle our data?
Obey our rules.
Amazon lied about SCCs before. Now they just change vocabulary.
Nothing changed.
As a US subsidiary, you still fall under FISA and therefore you fail adequate protection of Personal Data.
Encryption does not protect data at runtime. Otherwise AWS is just glorified backup storage of e2ee data.
Smoke and mirrors. As long as they remain subsidiary of AWS in US no level of protection will be sufficient.
MS tried same with their Azure.
This BS on another level.
Male loneliness epidemic
You are solving a non-existent problem.
There is no "male loneliness epidemic". If anything, there might be a "human loneliness epidemic". This is not a DEI angle on the problem.
Times have changed, societies have changed. But our expectations have not.
It is literally time to grow up to the new reality.
I think Professor Galloway, whom I am generally a fan of, is spreading a narrative based on selective statistics.
Media coverage is definitely a factor, but the post has some gleaming issues.
Take excessive regulations for instance, which gets mentioned all the time. If they were such a hindrance to startups, why would American startups succeed in Europe - like Airbnb in our case - and European startups not? We all face the same regulations
Nope, they don't. US companies in Europe generally don't care about EU regulations. Even if we skim over privacy, AirBnB succeeded in Europe despite there being laws preventing short lets in many municipalities.
My heart sunk after reading this paragraph:
The government is expected to make the final decision by July 2027, with construction starting around 2032.
Same here.
Proves that good content, not fancy CSS or animations, is still the king.
I have YT Premium, still have to skip through ads (sponsored blocks in creators videos).
There are few great creators without them, but these ranks are shrinking fast.
You still get shorts in search results :(
Ha! So I am not alone. I thought it was just me as I have search history off and all privacy toggles switched to maximum off.
I was under impression that this was the reason all follow-ups/recommendations are just irrelevant rubbish.
But the sound of it, it is just a feature of modern YouTube.
Also side note: 3-4 years ago watching hardware reviews was fine on YT. Today it is a pulp of sponsored/biased reviews (disclosed or not). I give youtube 0 trust, on par with Amazon reviews.
Most of trusted creators already moved or double publish to Nebula.
In Li Haoyi's recent talk he shows how incredibly fast Java compiler is.
Also demonstrates how much overhead comes from Maven and Gradle.
If Java build feels sluggish, know that first 50s is lost due to maven.
Mill still has rough edges. The project is evolving fast and things change, but it is a great tool.
The BSP support in IDEs is IMO still work in progress (not related to Mill itself) so for JVM languages, Maven and Gradle still have a leg up.
Conversion risk is just small problem. It is plan devaluation that gets you over long time.
Your tactic over paying with USD revenue for USD bills is a good tactic.
Our policy is to avoid US vendors and USD subscriptions.
Thank you, appreciated.
"Stop being stubborn" was uncalled for. Not sure why I deserve this patronising derogatory response.
FYI we had USD pricing. When we dropped it we saw no difference in conversion.
We are also listing prices in EURO only.
Our server bills are in EURO.
Our salaries are in EURO.
Our subscription for business operations are in EURO.
Our accountancy costs are in EURO.
It helps that our focus is on European customers, but that said, it is hard to justify going with USD pricing.
Competitors don't really matter
This is so spot on.
I am also in a competitive space. Couple of my competitor man-child founders blocked me on social media for simply being on their feed. I took it as a blessing. I tuned out from their noise quickly and focus on customers rather than social media attention disorder.
Do yourself a solid. Don't watch competitors. Watch customers and the market.
Here's a small number of things that will die when Google dies. Can you imagine how the world will be affected when these go away?
From your list, I (+family, circle of friends and most non-StartUp businesses) only use Android so yes, I can imagine a life without these.
Bring it on.
Collabora, Etherpad, CryptPad
+ OnlyOffice
Qwant, DuckDuckGo
+ Mojeek
Matomo, Plausible Analytics
+ Wide Angle Analytics, Simple Analytics
Firefox, Brave
+ Vivaldi
GMX, ProtonMail, Tutanota
+ Infomaniak, Mailo, Runbox
and tons of others