Yeah, a formal complaint isn’t quite intended for this purpose. Just writing to your data protection authority/officer to let them know that this is important to look after, will do the same here. They can then hand out a warning to Reddit.
Well, sometimes there’s also social pressure, to ‘just drink one beer’. My mum tells me that also used to be a thing for cigarettes. I feel like that died off, because people became aware of the health effects.
Greece does make sense with how much of their country is near the coast…
I imagine, the problem is that a unicorn is just a horse with a horn. If it’s not puking rainbows, you might not really notice it…
Mozilla pays for a premium subscription to Google Analytics, which allows them to opt out of data usage by Google. So, obviously Google still aggregates the data, but only for providing reports to Mozilla. Google may not use the data for their own user analysis/tracking, as they would do without the premium subscription. Otherwise, Google would be in breach of contract, which would be an easy lawsuit with high punishment for Google.
You can find a detailed description about Firefox Sync’s design in regards to privacy here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
Because it’s not true. Account data is not shared with Google.
…which non-free-will folks will argue is irrelevant. You could have done different, if you had a reason to, but you didn’t.
Corporate lawyers tend to be …optimistic. And then management will put a risk calculation on top of that. As a result, most larger companies violate the GDPR. See the popular use of Google Analytics or Microsoft 365, for example, which are illegal in the EU, if you ask a DPA¹. Giving them a reality check is never a bad idea.
¹) https://www.imy.se/en/news/four-companies-must-stop-using-google-analytics/
https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-office-365-illegal-germany/