Though not if you use it in Signal: <a href="https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/" rel="nofollow">https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/</a>
If the service is free, you are the product.<p>I wonder how many “partners” Google or Microsoft have? Their legalese probably doesn’t say it explicitly and probably use some loop hole through a data broker.<p>Google -> data broker (1) -> 1000 “partners” or affiliates
Is anyone keeping a list of websites which are (a) relatively public, and (b) only serve data? (as news.ycombinator.com appears to do)<p>> <i>And if you gaze long into a cyberspace, the cyberspace also gazes into you.</i> —not FWN
How is it that no one has come up with a way to easily inform the user/customer what is being collected and for what?<p>My initial thought would be something along the lines of providing like an ingredients label for food but for data collected from web pages.<p>That would help inform the user what exactly and how pervasive the data they are collecting rather than bucketing it under a common term such as the “data”<p>application services should provide User accounts with exactly what about them was collected and stored in an account summary and ideally if they sold it how much they made off of it as well
I like using Giphy and my IP address and private data aren’t something I can directly monetize.<p>So I’ll keep using Giphy and Giphy can figure out how to monetize my IP address and private data. No issues here.
Giphy also does not have a privacy policy for their Firefox extension, but run an analytics script, which I wrote about and sent them an email to which they ignored me despite sending conformation of receiving it.<p>No way to know the data being collected, or opt out.<p><a href="https://www.coloursofosint.com/posts/Investigating-Firefox-Part-1/" rel="nofollow">https://www.coloursofosint.com/posts/Investigating-Firefox-P...</a>
I occasionally post a meme GIF in my posts, and I had been downloading the ones I wanted from Giphy and Tenor and hosting the file on my site… definitely glad I did that instead of unknowingly generating profit for a company simply by having visitors on my site.
Second order effect of forcing a sale by Meta. At least they would have kept the data from getting shared with 800+ data brokers with who knows what kind of security and decency practices.
Wouldn't one have to agree to the cookies on Giphy site for the data to be shared? There's no such possibility in Slack, so I'd assume different T&C apply here.
Wow. Giphy must have drastically changed since my last interactions with the dev team ~2016. Back then they actually went out of their way to respond to (and fix!) my bug reports for obscure Firefox forks. I was really impressed with them.<p>The natural lifecycle of free image hosts is well known and short though. Enshittification is inevitable.
This should come as a surprise to no one. Any platform returning a whole webpage with a prominent "download our app" button when you try loading a direct link to a .gif is clearly up to some major bs.
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