#consent : to agree in opinion or sentiment

- French: consentement

- German: zustimmen, Zustimmung

- Italian: beneplacito

- Portuguese: conscentimento

- Spanish: consentimiento

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

OT: I get very annoyed at sites that have cookie plugins that require you to scroll down and down and down, manually rejecting each of the "legitimate interest" vendors sections.

What they call "legitimate interest" is often not my definition of "legitimate interest."

Please use a plugin with a "reject all" for non-essential cookies.

Maybe you think I'll just get tired of scrolling down and will just accept all. But I don't. If your site irritates me on cookies, I just leave.

Please be considerate when taking pictures and ask all those in the frame. And for fuck sake ask people before interacting physically with them.

Meeting up all your online friends
in-person can be exhilarating!

But while you're having fun hanging out at your favorite hacker conference,
don't forget to ask for consent before posting photos of others online.

Asking for consent before sharing data is cool AF.

Be cool AF

Dear men: I cannot believe that this needs saying, but please do not approach me and engage me in conversation while not only *filming me* but also *live streaming me* without my knowledge or consent.

Good grief.

From: blenderdumbass . org

A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/it_s_better_to_want_it_than_to_need_it

From: blenderdumbass . org

A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/it_s_better_to_want_it_than_to_need_it

#DatingApps Need to Learn How #Consent Works

Staying safe whilst #dating online should not be the responsibility of users—dating apps should be prioritizing our #privacy by default, & laws should require companies to prioritize user privacy over profit. But dating apps are taking shortcuts in safeguarding the privacy & #security of users in favour of developing & deploying #AI tools on their platforms, sometimes by using your most personal info to train their AI tools.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/dating-apps-need-learn-how-consent-works

How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide

by Timo Al-Farooq in Al Mayadeen English

@palestine
@israel
@GermanyUN @germany

“Germany’s morally bankrupt political and media class, with their scandalous lack of historical self-awareness, continue to manufacture consent for a genocidal war that has German entanglement written all over it”

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/how-germany-continues-to-manufacture-consent-for-genocide

We really need to work hard all together to improve our collective culture around privacy and consent.

This isn't just a matter of using the right tools and enforcing the right policies,
this is about people.

ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users

If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person.

This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent.

Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges.

Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge.

This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users.

If you have chosen to share your
own data with commercial platforms, make sure you leave the same choice to others.

This is important.

From: blenderdumbass . org

A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/it_s_better_to_want_it_than_to_need_it