Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies. At all.
Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking.
Why is this notable? Try doing the same check on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or basically anywhere or anything else online. It's basically unheard of in 2025, as everybody else is selling you.
I think with the double whammy of companies rolling back their diversity programmes (and even removing all references to diversity from their own material) and the push for Generative AI by clueless executives, a lot of orgs have basically set themselves to:
- exclude female and marginalised voices
- have far less diverse views
- given their biggest strategic document voices to 4 Big Tech companies via Copilot etc writing documents.
It's a masterclass in poor decision making.
