cross-posted from: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/172622

The "Accept all" button is often the standard for cookie banners. An administrative court has ruled that the opposite offer is also necessary. > > Lower Saxony's data protection officer Denis Lehmkemper can report a legal victory in his long-standing battle against manipulatively designed cookie banners. The Hanover Administrative Court has confirmed his legal opinion in a judgment of March 19 that has only just been made public: Accordingly, website operators must offer a clearly visible "reject all" button on the first level of the corresponding banner for cookie consent requests if there is also the frequently found "accept all" option. Accordingly, cookie banners must not be specifically designed to encourage users to click on consent and must not prevent them from rejecting the controversial browser files.

The popular Dutch tv show Lubach mentions dangers of dependence on USA cloud services.

Alternatives mentioned: Proton OVHCloud Upcloud

And now the big alternative: Lidl cloud.

Luxchat4Gov and Luxchat for the general public and businesses are interoperable national instant messaging services, based on the Matrix technology.

Matrix is an open standardized protocol for instant communication, developed by a large, mainly European community, and supported by a foundation, The matrix.org Foundation, guaranteeing the sustainability of the key principles and foundations of the Matrix technology.

https://www.luxchat.lu/en/technical-details/

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/12833459

Here is the announcement video: https://youtu.be/q85lZdNStGs