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There probably ought to be a cookie banner or something though if your instance allows for embedding of third-party content (e.g. YouTube videos), because that content will probably have tracking scripts etc..

@GossiTheDog Well, not exactly unheard of. From the top of my head, Duckduckgo and the EFF websites have no tracking cookies.

There's no technical requirement that could force websites to show ads or use trackers. Most companies simply hate their customers - sad but true.

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@GossiTheDog even shops could go without such an annoying popup, but they choose to track me all the time ... it's sad.

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@GossiTheDog And here's my UBlock icon when I'm on Masto.

@GossiTheDog "Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking."

What? I thought the reason they try to coerce you into using mobile apps is precisely because they (and Google, the NSA, etc) can track you, without needing cookies and thereby side-stepping the law. Don't they all insist on Google Play Services (a binary black box) so that your information can be shared between apps?

EDIT: I misread the OP, m'don is good.

@GossiTheDog Why bother collecting data on myself when it's my own server? That's why I like Mastodon

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@GossiTheDog Unfortunately it's becoming hard to tell the difference between sites that don't have a banner because they don't need one, and sites that absolutely do need one but don't because they don't give a shit because nobody is going to enforce anything against them.

@GossiTheDog I didn't know that it was possible to release apps on the play store without having a privacy statement. It's the reason this page exists: https://krita.org/en/privacy-statement/

@GossiTheDog it is rare, but you will also find no cookies on krebsonsecurity.com. I don't want your data, so don't give it to me!

@GossiTheDog sad though many third party Mastodon apps especially on IOS do have trackers for some odd reason. I find it perplexing and disheartening.

@GossiTheDog Proudly serving no cookies or whatsoever on cure53.de ever since the website went online.

We do receive mails from folks that complain about the missing banner though, assuming something is wrong.

@GossiTheDog yep pretty much

@GossiTheDog side note: I don’t think if Apple does verify the data collection statement, I have seen national tax app that declared “no data collected” on App Store.

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It's that old thing, the "if you're not paying for the product, it's because you ARE the product."

We pay for Mastodon. Maybe not you, individually, but someone does. Owners pay for hosting and bandwidth and storage and the domain and all that other fun stuff. And I've seen the numbers for some of these instances, they can be very... not cheap to run.

So, if you're on Mastodon and have a few bucks to chip in, see if your instance owner has a patreon or a kofi or something, maybe chip in and do your part.