So I’ve been warning people to not use the tumblr live feature and i had this discussion in the notes of one of the people i warned
said person already used live themselves and was not aware of what all TumblrLive’s partner MEETME collects with its feature and i wanted to take the time to make a post going over the privacy policy for anyone who is interested
for the first part here MEETME talks about how creating an account (downloading) (or having a tumblr account that auto updated to include the tumblr live feature (which is a vast majority of the tumblr mobile population in the US rn)) automatically makes any information they collect visible to any of the partners they have
the three partners mentioned there Skout Flurv and Boy Ahoy are all dating sites that promote primarily their location tracking fuck all knows what they want with your live data most likely they want to advertise singles near you??? but MEETME’s other current partners are apps like PlentyfFish Zoosk Chispa and Badoo which is Match.com and Bumble
the main important parts to notice from section ii of the privacy policy is the location information limit mobile ad tracking and do not track signals the rest of the section mainly puts the onus of revealing private information that can be used maliciously on the user ie. don’t share your password say your full name in a live video where you live etc.
as far as the location information goes what its saying here is that they collect the location information when you first register for tumblr live when you first log in and whenever your phone is on even if youre not using tumblr live
what does it use this information for??? well advertising purposes of course!!!
now they try to get around saying they dont track your location or share it with other users by using this word precise several times now what that means is they have a rough geotag of your location
(your ip address they dont say here its your ip address but in later parts of the document they do in fact say they collect your ip address and if you want an idea how close an ip address can get to your exact location enter your ip address in google maps sometime)
theyre being intentionally vague about that so when you see on the live tab something that says near you you could probably not follow that exactly to said persons house but you can damn well be you will at the very least find their city
heres a reminder to all of you who havent most phones now bury in the settings an option to disable adID do it now!!! but remember that TumblrLive can still use all other information they gather they do not at all process do not track signals so you arent safe there and what data would that be that they can collect other than your location and adID??? glad you asked!!!
this is a non exhaustive list which means there is DEFINITELY other data they collect about and from you
so they collect:
your email and phone number
any info in your tumblr bio
any metadata connected to any photo youve ever uploaded
adID
ip address
cookies and beacon
which devices you use
which features you use
which pages you visit
which chats you use
anything in your private chats or posts
anything from any connected social media accounts
how well ads are doing
what youre interested in
and in some cases even your biometric information
and what do they do with this information???
ads of course
and to give anything they want to cops :)
i dont make this post in order to like ruin peoples fun when it comes to this new feature or to try to talk down to anyone or make anyone feel stupid or anything im not here to make fun of people or belittle anyone but i think its real fucking important people know what privacy rights they are forfeiting by having their phone on right now with this new feature
also everyone please feel free to give a kind fuck you to tumblrs current ceo @photomatt
TLDR: DONT USE TUMBLR LIVE
This is a lot of text just to tell you the main thing you can do is DONT use Live.
BUT YOU CAN DO MORE. YOU CAN BLOCK ITS CONNECTIONS FROM YOUR PHONE ENTIRELY.
Step 1) Install a DNS-based adblocker if you don’t have one. The best one available on Android and iOS is Blokada. It’s free to use and straightforward to set up.
Step 2) Block any domains that look related to Tumblr Live. So far I’ve blocked:
api.gateway.tumblr-live.com
auth.gateway.tumblr-live.com
tmg-stream.gateway.tumblr-live.com
video-api.gateway.tumblr-live.com
video-live.gateway.tumblr-live.com
assets.video.tumblr-live.com
But if you see any others that look suspicious, block them too!
Now you’ll no longer see those tumblr live ads in between posts, and if you go to the Tumblr Live tab, it will simply show nothing!
I see there’s some confusion, so let me clarify:
You want to install Blokada 5, which is free. If the first thing you see on Blokada.org is “Cloud” or “Plus,” you need to scroll the page.
“Blokada 6” is their set of premium cloud-security and VPN apps, which require a subscription. These are not needed to get system-wide adblocking on your phone!
staff literally took these images down and deleted op’s account like within the last few hours I’ve seen this post multiple times today with OP still active and the images still there
Sadly the app store only has Blokada 6
That’s also what I’m seeing :/ Even going to the website only shows Blokada 6 for iOS
op here they did in fact terminate my account
(this is my second account that i kinda sorta hijacked from one of our alters she begrudgingly agreed but shes also had tumblr longer than me and existed longer than me and im terrified of upsetting her)
I may have allegedly pointed out that tumblr current ceo has made his emails public information should anyone ever have any concerns and should they ever want to talk with someone about it
it seems they took that as a threat
its funny that we’ve been on tumblr for just over 9 years and weve threatened plenty of millionaires and billionaires but this is the least threat ive ever made and the first that got me terminated
gee i wonder why @photomatt might consider people knowing where to contact him something threatening
certainly if he was managing tumblr well and people were happy with him itd be no issue
“If I get read as trans at a “queer women’s event,” dykes assume I’m a straight transsexual guy. Ironically, this grants me free access. I bear no resentment toward my FtM brothers, but I do grind my teeth over women’s spaces and dyke circles that welcome them yet which exclude my transsexual sisters. I am infuriated by the underlying assumption: my brave FtM brothers, who have sacrificed to become men, are just conformist women, and my bold MtF sisters who have fought to be women, are really men with a fetish for being marginalized. Are we dykes so fragile, so afraid, that we cannot allow anyone to enter, leave, or even explore? When we imply that FtM men are still gay women, how can we also fear that “we are losing our butches”? Our butches? Whose butches? Does the dyke community own its members? Our sex lives? Our genders? Does it control us for our own good? Dykes are not fragile flowers. Many femmes wear the flaming rose. It’s a flower, but it’ll fight back if you try to crush it. What tough flower would symbolize us butches? Or do we fear that butches are the fragile ones, anxious to leave dykespace? We fear men will undo us, erase us; that we must guard against their entrance into our spaces, or our sister’s pants. But men have been part of butch-femme for as long as I can remember. Pre-electrical lesbian spaces contained trans-spectrum men who feared presenting as male in public, and butches who feared looking mannish because of laws, written and unwritten, that prohibited putting a vagina in a pair of pants. Medical transition has been around since the 1930s, and it has not destroyed us. There were gay men who shared our bar scene, and their business kept many of “our” bars afloat. The lesbian communities that most feared men were those that also feared femmes, butches, transsexuals, and every other stripe of gender freedom. Butch-femme is tough. We are tough. Our culture has survived alcoholism, homophobia, beatings, corrupt vice squads, poverty, and the sex wars—plus all the other problems of living. I think we can survive transgender medicine. The happiest butch-femme spaces I’ve seen are those that embrace the gender spectrum. There we find butches and femmes who go by “she” and love their unmodified bodies. We have FtMs who’ve done the works—T, top, and crotch—who may be men or butch or femme or more. They include me and others who transitioned into being butches. They include femmes without questioning their taste in lovers. And it works. Men will not undo us. But an unchecked fear of men—of becoming a man, dating a man, having been forced to be one, looking too much like one, being too attractive to men in general, or aiding or abetting any of the above- can and will make our community unliveable if we let it. But we should not fear or police ourselves. If we did that, there’d be no butch or femme in the first place.”
— amy fox, from Persistance: All Ways Butch and Femme
Why do American comics have this thing where they seem to emphasize way too many random words that don’t make any sense and I spend the whole time reading up and down in a lilting mental voice
IN THE DAYS OF HAND-LETTERING AND POOR PRINTING, IT WAS IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE LETTERING EASY TO READ, SO IT WAS DONE IN UPPERCASE LETTERS. THIS TENDED TO MAKE THE TEXT HARD TO READ. SMALL PUNCTUATION MARKS WERE HARD TO SEE, IF THEY PRINTED AT ALL.
LETTERERS – THOSE UNSUNG HEROES – LEARNED THAT BY VARYING THE WEIGHT OF THE TEXT AND USING EXCLAMATION POINTS AND DOUBLE-DASHES, THEY COULD MAKE THE COMICS EASIER TO READ, WHILE EXPRESSING EMPHASIS TO ENHANCE THE ACTION-PACKED DIALOGUE!
IN THE HANDS OF A GOOD WRITER AND LETTERER TEAM, THE EMPHASIZED WORDS ARE NOT RANDOM, BUT INSTEAD WORDS THAT WOULD BE STRESSED IN NATURAL SPEECH. THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE STRESS CAN CHANGE THE MEANING OF THE SENTENCE!
YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT COMIC BOOK LETTERING GRAMMAR HERE!!
I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me
In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. Source.
It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.
decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years
