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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search

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Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search

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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online – The Markup
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Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.
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    Page does not exist

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      Oops thanks

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        It exists if you use HTTPS and not www. at the beginning of the hostname:

        https://easyoptouts.com/

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          Hah, they need to go update their DNS settings to include the www.

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            No, www needs to go the way of the dodo.

            Gotta love an abbreviation that is longer to say than the expansion

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              I’m somewhere in between: I also hate www. but it’s usually pretty easy to just redirect it.

              On mobile now, but if there’s no HTTPS DNS record and no HSTS HTTP headers those are things I’d be more concerned about — kind of wish leaving port 80 open wasn’t still so necessary.

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            Why would they add the www. subdomain with no use for it? That’d be like including a handcrank with a new car just because some old people still think they need it

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              I mean, this entire thread was started because of a broken link. So I don’t know that “no use for it” is entirely accurate. It would have prevented the broken link, and that is a use.

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