Because of the Facebook shitshow, I decided to peruse our Terms of Service, which hadn't been updated since 2014.
I made the following change:
Previous language:
- User information will only be shared with third parties in an aggregate form that preserves individual user anonymity. Emails, IP addresses, partial IP addresses, and user-activity will not be shared with third parties.
Updated language:
- We do not share user information with third parties.
We haven't gone the "selling our users" route, and we aren't going to. If there's not a better way, then maybe there shouldn't be a way.
I'm gonna use this admirable and principled post to sprinkle a little salt: We, the users, paid for hosting last year. That rectangle at the upper right got filled. And I know y'all were so busy doing important things that it never got acknowledged, but can we bloody acknowledge it? This discussion is always about funding and sustainability and we fuckin' met your pledge drive, yo. And we never even got our victory lap.We haven't gone the "selling our users" route, and we aren't going to. If there's not a better way, then maybe there shouldn't be a way.
Also, when I hover over the little rectangle now, it still reads "Hubski 2017 Funding Goal." Not sure if you're the guy to talk to about that, or if it's an error on my end, but I figured mentioning it would be helpful.
I've been considering Brave. insomniasexx and I were just discussing it the other day.
Thanks. I wrote this prior to adding the ability to donate: To date, donation has been enough. I'd kill Hubski off before selling its soul. Thankfully, I don't need Hubski to contribute to my living wage. Maybe in the future there will be a new economic model that enables Hubski to scale up and keep its soul, but we can be endlessly patient in waiting for that day.
Build a casino feature with a dedicated fake currency ("Currenski") to dodge online gambling legislation, charge transfer fees and gains fees as the house in poker and blackjack. I've seen this for Counter-Strike, and of all places, Puzzle Pirates.
I assume "the FB shitfest" refers to the outrage surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. GDPR (which is the reason so many other web sites and applications have updated their ToS lately) is not really related to that scandal. The two just happened to coincide in both subject and time.