God you’re evil.

How can I do it?

Only a few of them. Many just work.

It’s funny because Ukrainian war videos are put into the main feed, and you can watch the videos. But when you click the title to read the comments it asks you to login for sensitive content.

It’s such a shitty, buggy and slow website.

Don’t forget stupid DRM bullshit.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-encrypted-media-2-20240718/

Editors:
    Joey Parrish (Google Inc.) 
    Greg Freedman (Netflix Inc.) 
Former editors:
    Mark Watson (Netflix Inc.) (Until September 2019) 
    David Dorwin (Google Inc.) (Until September 2017) 
    Jerry Smith (Microsoft Corporation) (Until September 2017) 
    Adrian Bateman (Microsoft Corporation) (Until May 2014) 

This was after Google bought WideVine in 2010.

The title should be “Google pulls plug out of Chromium”

Too bad that even when people start switching, people writing drafts for the W3 spec are mostly Google employees. I’m sure that’ll be their next battleground.

Usually something like this would be enforced once in a centralized location (in the data layer / domain model), rather than at every call site.

True. Although not every endpoint is the same, nor is every website or service.

This gets tricky because in many jurisdictions, you need to ensure that you don’t just delete the user, but also any data associated with the user

GDPR specifically mentions user identifiable data. I don’t know about others.

None of these require your account to “exist”.

It’s actually much more technical than theoretical. When you delete an account on a website, that is being kept for a little while longer, it merely has field in the database that gets updated. (often with a removal date as well for the automatic removal after x amount of days). This field needs to be checked everywhere the account is used. And account recovery is mostly a part where this is forgotten, or possibly not even wanted.

And to claim this as fact, I just realized that the website I work on allows recovering of banned accounts. (Removed accounts are completely removed though because we don’t need to retain any data).

This is the only valid reason. But even then this could be stated so that the user is fully aware.

Keeping the records for a little while longer is actually implied to be known. It’s in their privacy policy, and is legal.

Whether or not services should make this easier to know exactly what is happening I definitely agree. Personally I think post history without user identifiable data should also be removed, but this is even less common practice (and is why tools exist to delete all your reddit posts for example).

Many services have a grace period. Mostly it’s 30-90 days where they keep your data, just in case somebody else decided to delete your account or you were drunk or something. But it could also be for legal reasons, like websites where you can post stuff for everybody to see, in case you post something highly illegal and the authorities need to find you. Another example is where a webshop is required to keep a copy of your data for their bookkeeping.

You mean mDNS/Zeroconf are using a tld that was already being used.

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