Kevin Beaumont
Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies. At all.
Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking.
Why is this notable? Try doing the same check on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or basically anywhere or anything else online. It's basically unheard of in 2025, as everybody else is selling you.
The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙
It's that old thing, the "if you're not paying for the product, it's because you ARE the product."
We pay for Mastodon. Maybe not you, individually, but someone does. Owners pay for hosting and bandwidth and storage and the domain and all that other fun stuff. And I've seen the numbers for some of these instances, they can be very... not cheap to run.
So, if you're on Mastodon and have a few bucks to chip in, see if your instance owner has a patreon or a kofi or something, maybe chip in and do your part.
Khleedril
@GossiTheDog "Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking."
What? I thought the reason they try to coerce you into using mobile apps is precisely because they (and Google, the NSA, etc) can track you, without needing cookies and thereby side-stepping the law. Don't they all insist on Google Play Services (a binary black box) so that your information can be shared between apps?
Miakoda
@GossiTheDog This is one of the reasons I'm here
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