In an earlier incarnation, Hayden Veil enjoyed a successful career in software engineering, writing late-night poetry in pursuit of sanity. On 2 February 2020, the world of Hayden Veil changed: Ghosts became real and with its soul laid bare there was no turning back from the perpetual path of poetry.
Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)
OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:
Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.
My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:
Now you’ll see this page:
Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:
Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.
When we click on that one, what we will get is this:
A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.
(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)
A slightly more informative post about the new privacy settings 🙂
I just went through the new privacy settings controls here at Tumblr… they are sellingus to an awful lot of advertisers but fortunately you can turn of the advertisers you don’t want to be sold to.
The Sun, it revealed itself in full glory
as it came out from behind the
clouds. A warm and friendly face that
made me blush by its naked power
The Bird, it flew in through the patio
door and hid in my cealing light.
Frightened without a doubt from a
fight with a neighbour’s cat
The Cat, it came in through the front
door as I tried to help a frightened
Bird. Escape now Birdy! I said to no
avail; then chased the Cat to far away,
before the Bird would depart my lair
The Friends of old, that time again
with a night of social interactions and
spicy food on top of the agenda
The Curry Man, so oft in favour did fail
this night to properly deliver. The food
was wrong and the service failing,
how was it that Pilau was Plain and
Plain … some other …
The Bar Maid, serving up the sweetest
of nectar, too sweet for my liking, so
sweet was her grace. I longed for
some hops but sobriety desired, the
forecast was wet but I needed dry in
all possible ways
The Clouds, hiding in the darkness of
the night, not showing any signs of
leaking as we departed the pub.
Tricksters! not letting go until the end.
So close to home; so close to bed; but
oh so drenched; so soaking wet
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The Earth is bleeding
Fissures, the crust breaking
Blood seeping, slowly
weakening
The Mother
The Earth is bleeding
No plaster will suffice,
A day not far from now
the bearded goat will show
To re-open the Hell’s door
The Earth is bleeding
Let
Us
Pray
For
Healing
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The experience of time for a fly
in relation to that of a; let’s say;
ant, must be in the region of
Wow! The fly is here, there and
everywhere, all at once and never
found again. The ant is here and
then not as my clog tumbles when
I retake my position as master of
the sun lounger. The rest of the day,
my time, will be absolutely spent on
the relative questions of life, it’s
purpose and the never-ending
struggle with planning my next
future…
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Even If, which is different from
Uneven If like pancakes differs from
waffles, is a start to a sentence that
will be really hard to finish, sensibly
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Perhaps leaving it to myself,
to fend my own corner, was
a mistake. Time will tell, some
would say, but I know the time
is running out; and with that
the answer seems irrelevant
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As the clouds start rolling in
I wonder if life will ever be
More than just waiting for
That final heartbeat and
What that might feel like
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Was there ever punishment, a cane
slicing through the air, and
tears
Was there ever punishment, a hand
grasping too hard, and
fear
Was there ever punishment, in truth
without a crime
commited
Was there ever punishment, or
were these mere fantasies,
memories corrupted by
age and a mind deluded
by their conceit
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