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by BLKNSLVR 881 days ago
Additionally, isn't the "Patreon user experience" merely "pay money to selected provider".

I'm admittedly mostly unfamiliar, but how is the user experience degraded? Are they attempting to classify not-as-targetted advertising as a degradation of user experience? If so, they'll never be speaking for me.

There are quite a few laws that are inconvenient to quite a few businesses, but usually those businesses know to say the quiet part quietly.

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They're saying that asking whether they can share the fact that you watched a given video with Facebook would degrade your user experience. Sounds like the idea of simply not sharing that information with them hasn't occurred to them.
If we didn't have all these criminal statutes, quite a few more business models could flourish.