Marco Arment sucks at GDPR.
Hey!? I tried to reblog THIS POST today, funnily enough to complain about having the exact same problem. (I’m in the UK btw.)
Here’s what happened when I tried to reblog it on desktop: (I thought maybe @golbatgender had blocked me, but I was still able to follow them and reblog another of their posts.)
So I tried replying on mobile instead. No such luck. Here’s what happened when I tried to send the post or save it as a draft in the iOS app. Only this time it was much more annoying because these nasty little errors don’t show up until after you’ve finished writing.
Note that it is only this post that does it. Other posts work fine. So, not points for guessing what happened when I tried to reblog it on the mobile website.
@staff Are you fucking joking or what?!?
This may or may not be related to GDPR, but I have also found I can’t view any page at all on anyone’s blog without this clusterfuck website redirecting me to tumblr.com/dashboard. What the fucking fuck?
I have tried logging in with two accounts, three different browsers, and incognito mode. None of these did anything at all until I realised I could fix it temporarily with Hola VPN.
And while this is almost certainly unrelated to Tumblr, I do find it amusing this would happen on the same day that Instapaper, another site created by Marco Arment, decides to come back online after two months of shitting the bed with regards to GDPR.
Pictured: the page that European Instapaper users had to look at for TWO FUCKING MONTHS.
And as much as it is tempting to blame it on deliberate sabotage, I think that for both websites it was just a case of pure incompetence. Instapaper for one thing was so badly managed by its parent company, understaffed, didn’t have any idea how it wanted to make money… sounds very similar to Tumblr when you put it that way!
And no, while Marco doesn’t work at either of them anymore, he might just have left in some faulty code. Something like this perhaps?
1) If GDPR() = true; run command ShitTheBed.exe
I mean… I’m no programmer, but I imagine this is basically how this works. Right?
When this is fixed, I just know something in gonna go wrong with Overcast, Marco Arment’s latest project. Luckily all my podcasts are stored in Pocket Casts which is the superior app in my opinion. THERE, I SAID IT.
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