Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence
: Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them
Certainly the Blacklight test show that Microsoft EU respect way more the privacy (forced by law) than Microsoft US.
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Certainly the Blacklight test show that Microsoft EU respect way more the privacy (forced by law) than Microsoft US.
What test?
But really, I read the whole article and there’s nothing mentioned about a blacklight test.
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
In Options in the search bar you can filter the country US or EU
Oh I see. That's just measuring tracking scripts on websites. It's not particularly relevant to what is discussed in the article (data sovereignty of cloud providers).
Yes, but you can also proof it, checking and even blocking the traffic in the OS, eg. with Portmaster. Not a big Problem. Different to MacOS, Windows permits to make it reasinable private in the settings, the only problem is that a lot of settings (in total over 200 setting points and registry entries) are indocumented and hidden. The OS as such is only another modified UNIX fork, the worse part are the apps. telemetries and services added by M$. The gutted, mencioned WindowsX, shows it, also mine DIY version of Windows11 24H2 which I use, with only <700 MB in RAM, after eliminating all this MS crap.
Again, nothing to do with Microsoft's cloud platform.
But a lot with it's TOS and PP in any MS products and services in the EU. MS can't act in the EU the same way as in the US.
You're going to link me to youtube shorts?
Please, no.
You can just get a userscript that redirects it to become a normal video.
I could also edit the URL manually, it's just an obnoxious way to respond to a question.
They were just trying to be funny, but I also wonder what it means.
I’ve spent so little time with YouTube Shorts I didn’t know you could change the URL to a normal video
I try to avoid them as well. They show up a lot in search results for no reason, but adding something like "before:2100", that is, refining one search to show videos before the year 2100 in this case, that removes a bunch of unrelated shorts as well. In general whenever I see a feature I don't like, I check if others hated it as much as me and did something about it via a userscript.
I forgot about using those scripts. I’ll have to put Grease Monkey on my newer computer. I added an extension a couple months ago to stop websites from preventing me from pasting into text fields, but I’d guess using a script would be a more efficient way to deal with it than adding an extension for every annoyance!
There's also TamperMonkey (closed source) and ViolentMonkey (also MIT license like GreaseMonkey). I prefer ViolentMonkey. I believe there was a reason many years ago where either Tamper or Grease monkey didn't work for like a week which is why I switched, but I believe they're all equally good.
Manifest v3 might make it harder to get going on chromium browsers in a months time, but looks like you're on Firefox - shouldn't be problem there.
I hadn't seen that sketch in a little while, I was pleasantly surprised to see they added 14 additional audio tracks with translations. I wish that was more common, making humour more international like that.