John Pone - Music and Art

A good friend of mine, Anontheanon, has had his Tumblr account recently targeted for deletion by Tumblr. He was given no warning, no email, message or otherwise, in advance as to why his account was terminated. 

Apparently this has been happening to many other artists so it isn’t just a single incident. I’m just making this post as a warning so that if any of my artist friends out there has anything posted to Tumblr that was was using this as an archive then to find another means to store it, because relying on this website isn’t a good idea.

Its been speculated that this is largely due to the Tumblr iOS app being removed from Apple’s app store for violating TOS.

I hope this is a mistake and may be reversible but as Post suggests above if you are using Tumblr as an archive or a source for peoples works be warned they could be flash fried.

“’Em Damn Unicorns and their administration”

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.