TITLE: Good Therapy Credit Card Info and Security / 3rd Party Tracking
Yes, I actually do ask myself why I bother anymore, in case you are
wondering.
This stuff is so ubiquitous now as to be all but unavoidable.
That said, perhaps multiple letters from their customers (such as the
one below) might sway thinking?
www.goodtherapy.org
Dear Good Therapy Support:
[email protected]
I just updated my payment information with a new credit card.
In order to do this, I had to turn off "Brave Shields" -- basically a
web browser feature that blocks 3rd party tracking (cookies, web
beacons, sending data out to outside URLs). The web page would not
display with shields up.
*In payment transactions on multiple other websites I have NEVER had to
turn off my 3rd party tracking blockers.**
*
This is disconcerting -- makes me wonder how secure your website is.
Please consider changing this.
Also -- although I will never use your Good Therapy Verified Seal widget
-- its abilities to collect data for tracking, analysis, and advertising
from mental health websites is in very poor judgement. This stops only
just slightly short of a HIPAA violation as anyone looking at a
therapist's website is certainly considering mental health help. Data
from multiple such widgets and trackers across websites is used all the
time by 3rd party aggregators to discover the full name and identity of
visitors.
This is disappointing behavior that has lowered my trust in your
organization.
Thanks,
Michael Reeder
#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy #legal
@[email protected] @[email protected]
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
@[email protected] #mentalhealth #technology #psychiatry #healthcare
#HIPAA #dataprotection #infosec @[email protected] #doctors #hospitals
#BAA #businessassociateagreement #patientprivacy #goodtherapy
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NYU Information for Practice puts out 400-500 good quality health-related research posts per week but its too much for many people, so that bot is limited to just subscribers. You can subscribe at @[email protected]
Biden is a neo-liberal. Neo-liberals are conservatives. They are better dressed and more intelligent, but they are conservatives by all international measures.
Not everyone is willing to do what’s necessary to cure the disease. I am willing. If that makes me a monster, then I am the monster they themselves created.
Conservatism is a plague of oppression and death.
You can pretend that you are not an intolerant bigot advocating for mass-murder, but your own words betray you.
Reading through the constant fountain of hate that you spew in your comments makes it clear just how big of a problem Lemmy has right now. The vast majority of you comments are pushing for at least two-thirds of society to be “extinguished”.
I have seen whole instances defederated for having a user say less violent and bigoted things than your comments do.
Is this the centrist part, where some violence is ok?
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !espanol, !espanol
I’m aware. Judging by OPs history and the fact they’re dbzer0, a piracy and anarchy instance, I doubt it’s uber would want their name associated bvvqqqqq. I was mostly joking anyway.
After the sad dearth of Grier that was Fortress 2, I went back to the peak of the exploitation era and watched The Arena (1974), which is indeed ‘Female Spartacus’. So much so that Spartacus is explicitly referenced in the dialogue....
I had a post that just seemed to evaporate. Do mods just delete posts at will? Is there a notice sent typically? Post wasn’t anything remotely controversial. Is this something that happens on Lemmy? Say what you will about reddit, but at least there were notices when something was taken down.
Yes it happens… I got a comment deleted because literally I called the guy his username… Instance rule “no name calling”, but I called the guy his username lol
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !piracy
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this:
Dear bot,
Please let your masters know that they need a more intuitive way, of doing what you’ve described.
Otherwise you’re going to be very busy and polluting many conversations with your repeated instructions.
Is it not? I admit I haven’t read the handbook on police etiquette in such situations. I just don’t see how it was “a show of force” other than it was a statement to other kids, which is a positive thing.
When I was in school, I had police in my classroom at least 4 times. But only in one instance they made “arrests”. Basically they knocked, asked if “insert names” were present and asked them to come with them. No handcuffs, sure. But this was only about shoplifting. I never though it was a big deal.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !windows
I do take care in finding a suitable username. I have four accounts on different instances and all have different names, but mainly because i find it easier to see which account i am currently using. I like my usernames, but i’m not attached to them, nor am i attached to my accounts
Leaded gasoline has a really crazy story. People have known that lead is highly toxic since the mid 1800s, and when tetraethyl lead was invented by Thomas midgley Jr in the 1910s, pretty much everybody at GM knew how toxic it was. Dozens of workers died from exposure, and Thomas himself was sick with lead poisoning when it was unveiled to the public. GM even went as far as naming it “ethyl” to avoid public backlash.
The reason it wasn’t banned until the 90s was because health officials in the 20s thought that exposure to drivers was so low that it wouldn’t reach toxic levels until decades down the line. Like, the 1970s. This wasn’t reviewed until the mid 70s and by that point the consequences were disastrous.There were some studies between the 20s and 70s, but most didn’t gain much traction. Many adults and children had increased levels of lead in their blood and lead has contaminated the groundwater and polluted the air. For instance, there is NO safe level of lead in blood, and Herbert needleman in the early 70s found some American schoolchildren had as much as 14 micrograms per deciliter This is the reason it wasn’t banned until the 90s in most countries. One could say we’re still recovering from that in some ways.
And the worst part? They could have used ethanol, an organic substance that’s a major additive in alcoholic beverages. It also prevents engine knocking and is highly flammable, but otherwise not even close to as toxic as TEL was. You still woudlnt want to breathe it in, but it probably wouldn’t have polluted our air and ground so much. GM refused to use ethanol though because it couldn’t be patented (being naturally produced?) and it wouldn’t be very profitable to use it to prevent knocking. TEL was far more profitable.
I became hyper aware of it the first time I tried using Tik Tok, and I was served nothing but alt-right hate videos. Obviously, search engines aren’t usually quite so obvious, but for instance, people in my location are certainly more likely to net results connected to far-right ideas and agencies, because of the interests of people who live here.
I don’t like that idea at all. Search engines should only respond to deliberate input from the user imo. I know that’s a big ask for people to acclimate to appending “in [location name]” if they expect location specific results, but the convenience of just saying “hey Google, restaurants near me” is not worth the consequences.
Unfortunately, almost all search engines are complicit, including supposedly privacy friendly ones like Kagi, Qwant, and Startpage. I’m no longer recommending those to people. SearXNG and Mojeek are the only ones that don’t lean into the algorithmic and locational fuckery, but even that’s with a lot of tweaking the settings.
It’s no great mystery why things like fascism are on the rise. And people will say I’m in the minority for caring about this, and … yeah, that’s the problem.
I have an account on one server, but often browser from 9 other servers.
Do you literally open 9 tabs for each instances? If that’s the case, that’s kinda weird. You don’t have to. That’s the whole point of Lemmy.
Link for a community in lemmy should be something like this: [Link Text](/c/[email protected]). If you click that in whatever instance you’re in, you should be able to access the community in that instance.
However, quite a lot of people just don’t care and copy/paste link for the community which is (understandable, but,) quite irritating. So after I read this post I just wrote this hacky Tampermonkey script to fix those links.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !newcommunities
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !moviesnob
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !song_i_love
Yeah…yeah. I think that was when I lost all faith in Hollywood to adapt anything without shitting all over it. It’s gotten better with some recent stuff (Dune, for instance), but if I ever have to watch anything that is based on a property that I like, I try to go in with my expectations at absolute fucking bedrock.
Also, this is a reasonable time to mention one of my favorite heavy bands of all time, He Is Legend. They take their name from the Matheson book, and their biggest “hit” is called “I Am Hollywood,” so your comment just made me flash back to the late 2000’s metalcore scene.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !support
The number of subscribers listed in the sidebar is only the number of users from YOUR instance that are subscribed. This might make you feel like a community is ‘small’ or ‘dead’ when it actually isn’t....
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !canada
Looks like they REALLY don’t have half a clue of how the Fediseer works LMAO.
An instance removing their endorsement simply means that the admin PERSONALLY doesn’t appreciate your content. The opposite is also true: censures and hesitations mean that the admin either doesn’t like you or thinks you are dangerous. That’s it, end of story. Some people have their defed lists syncronized with Fediseer but a censure doesn’t automatically mean defederation.
And most importantly, from experience I can say no one ever looks at that “censure list” they mentioned. Rather, you look for an instance and weight the pros and cons by looking at the reasons behind their endorsements and censures.
BTW the name of the censuring instances are very much public and available:
This also works for any links on shields.io, but I didn’t notice the Lemmy & Mastodon links before. Please share anything else you discover while experimenting. I’ll edit in more tips as people find them...
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !canada
A Cuban teenager unwittingly found himself on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after accepting a job offer he received on WhatsApp to do “construction work” for the Russian military, according to Time magazine....
Interestingly, there is one instance where the media usually gets it “right” and the gun community regularly gets it “wrong”. The media often refers to a device as a “silencer”, while many in the gun community insist the same device should actually be called a “suppressor”.
The law regulating these devices (The National Firearm Act) refers to them as “Silencers” or “Firearm Mufflers”. It never calls them “suppressors”. Legally, there is no such thing as a “suppressor”. “Suppressor” is, technically, a popular slang term for the devices.
Indeed, their inventor named and trademarked it the “Maxim Silencer”. He also invented “mufflers” for internal combustion engines. His original terminology was later codified into law.
(To be fair, though, “noise suppressing” is a far more accurate description than “silencing” for describing what they do. They quiet the noise; they do not silence it.)
Does anybody know of an equivalent to /r/menslib? I think a strong egalitarian community for men could easily become a cornerstone of the threadiverse.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !mensliberation
Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Million Man Marches’ Are Being Held Across Canada. Who is Behind Them and What Are They Really About? (pressprogress.ca)
Everything you need to know about the ‘one million march for children’ to stop the ‘indoctrination of children in public schools’
[Community promotion] [email protected], a Spanish speaking community (eslemmy.es)
Hello everyone,...
Beware fellow heathens (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
My Review of The Arena (1974) (letterboxd.com)
After the sad dearth of Grier that was Fortress 2, I went back to the peak of the exploitation era and watched The Arena (1974), which is indeed ‘Female Spartacus’. So much so that Spartacus is explicitly referenced in the dialogue....
can posts on Lemmy just dissappear?
I had a post that just seemed to evaporate. Do mods just delete posts at will? Is there a notice sent typically? Post wasn’t anything remotely controversial. Is this something that happens on Lemmy? Say what you will about reddit, but at least there were notices when something was taken down.
Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee (deadline.com)
French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims (www.theguardian.com)
The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.
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How attached are you to your username?
Do you have a single username you feel attached to?...
Stop doing Computer Science (feddit.de)
First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie (www.404media.co)
Easy way to open a Lemmy link from another instance?
Is there an easy way to open a Lemmy link from another instance?...
What's it like to moderate a lemmy community or kbin magazine? (kbin.social)
Is there a template for rules? Rules for rules? Is there a lot of spam and abuse requiring moderation?...
How I imagine people who say their TV is just the same as a 70 foot high theatre screen. (lemmy.world)
Sitting close to a giant tv just isn’t the same as seeing something on a legit giant screen.
Song I Love And Want To Share - a place to share love for your favorite songs and discover new music. (lemmy.world)
As a big music lover I always enjoy an opportunity to share music I love and discover something new to listen....
YT is wild (lemmy.zip)
A walk with my XT3 and XF 35mm f2 - SOOC Jpeg (i.imgur.com)
Your communities might be a lot larger than you think!
The number of subscribers listed in the sidebar is only the number of users from YOUR instance that are subscribed. This might make you feel like a community is ‘small’ or ‘dead’ when it actually isn’t....
Lemmy Developer and Lemmygrad Admins get angry over being blocked. See comments for compilation. (sh.itjust.works)
If you want pretty links, you can add badges when linking to Lemmy communities or Mastodon accounts
This also works for any links on shields.io, but I didn’t notice the Lemmy & Mastodon links before. Please share anything else you discover while experimenting. I’ll edit in more tips as people find them...
A Cuban teenager was offered a job doing 'construction work' in Russia. Instead he was sent to fight on the front lines in Ukraine. (www.businessinsider.com)
A Cuban teenager unwittingly found himself on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after accepting a job offer he received on WhatsApp to do “construction work” for the Russian military, according to Time magazine....
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Men's Lib
Does anybody know of an equivalent to /r/menslib? I think a strong egalitarian community for men could easily become a cornerstone of the threadiverse.