Donât just accept the new Terms of Service
Tumblrâs at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. Thereâs probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)
OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:
Realise how the âOKâ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If youâre like me, youâre not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.
My tip? DONT. Instead click on âManage Optionsâ right next to it:
Now youâll see this page:
Still pretty harmless, right? That âAcceptâ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like âManage Optionsâ or something in english) and youâll get to this page:
Now thatâs not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to âoffâ, because Iâm jealously guarding my personal information and donât want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like weâre done! But wait: Thereâs a SHOW option.
When we click on that one, what we will get is this:
A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if youâd just clicked âOKâ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. Theyâre all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesnât want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.
(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)
dededos
discoholicmusic
janainaart
dailybridgerton
vaporwave
origamiaround
baratheonpilled
blakekathryn
