| ▲ | N0isRESFe8GXmqR 8 hours ago |
| Because EU Cookie Law was a flawed idea? |
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| ▲ | OKRainbowKid 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| How so? The law doesn't require cookie banners.
However, you could argue that tracking/advertisement cookies should have been banned completely and that the law is flawed in that it allows for tracking given user "consent". |
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| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I love the EU apologists - “it wasn’t a bad law just because the outcome was bad” | | |
| ▲ | GJim 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | The alternative being to bend over and grab our ankles with both hands the moment the scummy ad-tech industry requests our data? Sorry mate, the GDPR is there for a bloody good reason; and legit companies obey the law. | | |
| ▲ | drnick1 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The GDPR is theater. An effective privacy law would have prevented data collection in the first place. Data collected will be abused, and a cute little banner won't change this. | |
| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes because of the GDPR, there aren’t still two trillion dollar+ market cap ad Tech companies. But at least we have cookie banners everywhere. | | |
| ▲ | GJim 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | More pity to those who (for some bizarre reason) voluntarily choose to interact with those ad-tech companies. | | |
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| ▲ | wsng 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It was not a flawed idea, but flawed execution. The law should have mandated to adhere to the user's "do not track" setting in the browser. That being said, it was very early regulation in this field, and more recent approaches are already better, e.g., GDPR, DMA. |
