You can entirely be for-profit and earn your profit without the reselling of personal data. It was more common before net 2.0, for example Google first served you one or two links of ads based on your search. No saving and forwarding user data, just simply “for X amount, your webpage will be displayed to users searching Y keyword”
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no problems with being for-profit, the problem is getting money from selling the private date of those using your product
“Your private data is extremely important to us, as we make money from it”, how the hell do they manage to be this shady x(((
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Europe@feddit.org•Burqa ban passes in parliament as Amnesty International warns of rights violations – Portugal ResidentEnglish
7·29 days agoReminds me when such a law was passed in Austria, and people started phoning in people dressed as ninjas and animal mascots in malls and amusement parks
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Europe@feddit.org•Fears over foreign influence in France, as Musk backs Le Pen presidential bidEnglish
15·1 month agowe can only hope
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI
232·1 month agoWhy would Samsung have my health data ???
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Europe@feddit.org•Europe dominates the 2026 World Happiness Report: 19 out of the top 30 happiest countries are European (@theworldaroundme)English
5·1 month agoFinland being also in the top 10 European countries for suicide rate like
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Europe@feddit.org•No more profits from human misery: EU wants to hit migrant smugglers “where it hurts” - EU PerspectivesEnglish
11·1 month agoBy having a working immigration and integration process, instead of just throwing money at a neighbouring country for them to do the inhuman part ?
What, that’s not it ? Ah…
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Europe@feddit.org•Dutch intelligence missed the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. They trusted a major Russian asset. But only a tiny circle of confidants knew about Putin’s war plans. English
5·1 month agoTbf if Ukraine believed it but wanted to preserve an element of surprise, this is exactly how they would’ve communicated
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Europe@feddit.org•‘The risk is Russia becomes desperate’: the Swedish Baltic Sea island preparing for invasionEnglish
8·1 month agoLike, they can’t even handle Ukraine alone currently, what are they going to do in the Baltic States ?
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Europe@feddit.org•The US Bastards are talking about taking Greenland again!English
3·1 month agoRussia and China also have an interest in it, which stresses out the Americans
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Flight Attendants Reportedly Refusing to Sign Up to New Biometric Controls That Let Them Skip TSA Security Checks
9·1 month agoHow much does the current system cost ?
It’s funny that in Europe, our passports have been biometric for a long time, governments have our fingerprints, but the security at my base doesn’t use it, airport workers and Cabin Crews just have their own security gate
(I’m a Cabin Crew based in Vienna, Austria)



Never thought I’d read this sentence in my life