RE: Plausible, you should have checked their compliance and terms and conditions after checking demo and using it. There are some gotchas to be aware of (lack of DPO, being one red flag). Going umami, matomo would have been cheaper and safer.
Afaik, Plausible doesn't need a data protection officer. See Article 37 GDPR. (But I'll follow that up with them, in case it's an oversight.) I have read Plausible's documentation, and I haven't identified any problems with their practices.
Umami's homepage requires JavaScript to load, which is a red flag. And, as expected, there's something wrong: it's owned by a US company, which makes it a no-go.
Matomo is excellent and I second your recommendation.
> When organisations seek to protect their user’s data, it is necessary that they understand the data they need to safeguard. Personal data, in the context of GDPR, covers a much wider range of information than personally identifiable information (PII), commonly used in North America. In other words, while all PII is considered personal data, not all personal data is PII.
When you say PII in context of GDPR you are simply using wrong term.
IANAL, and wrote PII because it's personal non-legally binding communication, and there is nothing wrong with using any terms that are familiar to both sides.
You can read it as both PII and personal data, and it doesn't change the fact that this data sharing is out of scope of the company Privacy Terms.
Omg I literally puke with Shopify ads in podcasts.
Whats the point of paid, premium service like Spotify if I keep being served those stupid, dishonest and bordeline illegally deceiving Shopify ads every 15 minutes.
Spotify has enough power to say that podcasters should have ad free feed for premium subscribers or get deplatfromed. Obviously I would expect Spotify to pay podcasters.
The idea of paid, premium service with ads is ridiculous.
> Obviously I would expect Spotify to pay podcasters.
Are you willing to pay more for your subscription so that Spotify can also pay podcasters? Because that's what you are asking, it won't ever be able to dilute even more the royalties pot, you'd need to pay more for your subscription so that podcasters can also be paid.
Oh buddy, step our of your bubble. There are people out there who swear by LLM being a modern day mesahiah. And no, this are not just SV VCs trying to sell their investments.
Sure but VCs always exaggerate. Remember the dot com bubble? Or "there's an app for that"?
The internet and smartphones were still extremely useful. There's no need to refute VC exaggeration. It's like writing articles to prove that perfume won't catch you Bradd Pitt. Nobody literally believes the adverts but that doesn't mean perfume is a lie.
I'm not saying that VCs only push good ideas - e.g. flying cars & web3 aren't going to work. Just that their claims are obviously exaggerated and can be ignored, even for useful ideas.
Need managed services beyond scope of the above? There will be plenty of business (smaller and larger) offer you managed solution on top of other cloud providers.
But are they really a sensible alternative to AWS/azure when it comes to developer support etc.? Based on the offerings of European alternatives it seems that everything upto IAAS and limited PAAS offerings can be sourced European, but the real value-add is in development tooling, pipeline support etc. (e.g. AWS CDK) The lock-in on those tools are huge and Europe really need to step up to provide an alternative to that. Love to be proven wrong though.
Could you point to a source, please? I’m not super well versed in the history and lore of cloud and AWS, but interested in and invested in arguing for and supporting adoption of (real) sovereign European computing.
"The General Court orders the Commission to pay damages to a visitor to its
‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ website as a result of the transfer of
personal data to the United States" - https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
From further research, it looks like the Amazon data transfer issue was litigated and resolved at the EU level, with the court finding Amazon's practices were lawful under the contracts in place.
