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submitted 7 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct

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[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 7 months ago

For any Tumblr users here, this has already rolled out completely unannounced and is opt-in by default. You need to manually opt out, which can only be done on the desktop website. Odds are good that your data is already being sold to Midjourney and used to train their models.

To do so, click on your blog on the sidebar, click on Blog Settings on the other sidebar on the right, scroll down to the Visibility section, and turn the "Prevent third-party sharing for [your blog]" toggle to ON, not off. If you have any sideblogs, you'll need to manually do this for each of them as well. It's per blog and not account-wide.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 7 months ago

Not bad that you can opt out though, I don't think reddit will give people an option

[-] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't that be illegal in Europe with GDPR and other consumer protection laws?

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 5 points 7 months ago

I guess their TOS will cover them?

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Pretty much, yes. The GDPR allows users to access, modify, and delete their own content. The TOS license all user content to Reddit. There might be a conflict if they try to sell previously licensed content that a user has blanked or requested to be removed, not sure how that one would work out, but any content still on Reddit is fair game.

I'm guessing Tumblr and WordPress have similar licensing clauses ok their TOS.

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