🥳🎉🎈 Oh wow, a groundbreaking revelation: sending an #email to opt-out of being spied on by a service you voluntarily signed up for! 🕵️‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Next time, maybe just avoid surveillance-friendly apps altogether, genius. 📱💡
https://honeypot.net/2026/04/14/i-wrote-to-flocks-privacy.html #optout #surveillance #privacy #technews #dataethics #HackerNews #ngated
Getting the Flock out

I wrote to Flock’s privacy contact to opt out of their …

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Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

404 Media

#Google , #Microsoft , #Meta All #Tracking You Even When You #OptOut , According to an Independent #Audit

The #webXray #California #Privacy Audit viewed web traffic on more than 7,000 popular websites in California in the month of March & found that most tech companies ignore when a user asks to opt-out of #cookie tracking. California has stringent & well defined privacy legislation thanks to its California Consumer Privacy Act (#CCPA )…opt out of the sale of their info

https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

404 Media

Your semi annual reminder of how to get rid of JWs when they come knocking on your door.

Tell them a close family member was excommunicated and you and your family was then shunned.

Works like a charm and they will put you on their “do not knock” list.

#Tips #JW #OptOut

Last month I visited Berkeley to speak about the Opt Out project and the video has just been posted online! Check it out!!

How to Opt Out: Lessons from 14 Years of Evading Surveillance Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilXLiH6Rdx0

#optout #reclaimtech

How to Opt Out: Lessons from 14 Years of Evading Surveillance Capitalism | Janet Vertesi

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The fact that the humans care more about daylight savings than saving the lives of the innocent is, to me, completely bonkers.

Daylight savings is an aberration, much like war.

#daylightsavings #optout #makepeace #stopwar

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240308-daylight-savings-reasons-history-health-hazards-countries-that-abolished

Places around the world that opt out of daylight savings - and why

The pros and cons of daylight saving sparks debate around the world. Here's why some places have opted out.

BBC

Another day, another local small business automatically "opting" me into their marketing mailing list using an email address provided only for specific purposes.

FFS. This time it was the veterinarian. This ain't allowed in Canada.

#spam #UCE #OptIn #OptOut #Canada #privacy

If you're following along on the #optout #cybercleanse with #techreclaimers , this weekend we are onto Day 2--Switch up your browser!

If you are on Chrome, Safari, or Edge - time to get off.

If you already use a privacy centric browser, try another one out for fun.

There are SO many great browsers out there and switching costs are exceptionally low.

https://www.optoutproject.net/better-browsing/

Day Two: Better Browsing - The Opt Out Project

According to statcounter.com, Google's Chrome browser currently enjoys over 68% marketshare, with Apple's Safari not even a close second at…

Ho eliminato definitivamente le piattaforme #Meta e non ho mai avuto TikTok o X. Oggi racconto della mia vita senza #social (tranne questo profilo #mastodon , ça va sans dir) dopo sei (actually sette) mesi.

https://alessandranitti.com/site/2026/03/03/vivere-senza-social/

#optout #degoogle #demeta #nosocial #bigtech #nobigtec