So Europeans don't do this ? The EU is constantly trying to regulate US companies. Every time I click on a stupid cookie notice I fondly think of the EU .

▲ dgellow 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> The EU is constantly trying to regulate US companies

US companies that operate in the EU market, handle EU citizens data. Obviously the EU regulations cover them. Do you think European companies don’t have to follow US regulations when offering their services in the US?

▲ mcculley 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every time I click a stupid cookie notice I wonder why the company serving it up chose to make me go through that rather than not track me.

▲ sam-cop-vimes 13 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As much as I hate the cookie banner, it is this requirement that forced companies to disclose the massive amounts of tracking they are using when anyone visits their site.

▲ andersonpico 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

europeans certainly did make their politics everyone else's problem for centuries (we're talking every other continent at this point), but certainly the cookie banner is not even comparable, right?

▲ KronisLV 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The EU is constantly trying to regulate US companies.

What, you mean if they want to do business in the EU, sell their products in the EU and process the data of EU citizens?

> Every time I click on a stupid cookie notice I fondly think of the EU.

That’s just scumbag malpractice on purpose.

Number one, such tracking consent should have been a web standard and set in the browser itself (like Do Not Track), not stupid per-site banners that are designed to get you to accept everything just to make them fuck off. We shouldn’t even need extensions etc. to get rid of them, it’s like the problem was solved at the wrong level and in the worst way possible.

Secondly, everyone responsible for the state of those banners should have been fined greatly. I only say fined because claiming that some people should be in jail over coercing millions of people to give up their data to trackers would apparently be unreasonable.

▲ AlexErrant 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cookie nonsense aside, the EU is mandating that AI companies watermark their output.

I'm curious if that (noticably) diminishes the quality of the output.

▲ globular-toast an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The stupid cookie notice is entirely the fault of the site you are visiting. The EU just made the site show you how it's fucking you.

▲ shagie an hour ago | parent [-]

There's a cookie banner on https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en and https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng

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▲ globular-toast 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

That site is run by the EU, so those particular banners are the fault of the EU, yes. Most of the other ones you see are not, though.

	▲	shagie 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If the EU is unable to separate itself from pages of analytics and tracking cookies and fifteen third party providers (YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and so on), then "most of the other ones you see" are likewise compelled to have the cookie banner. Alternatively, if you need a cookie banner for every bit of analytics... `Name: cck3 Service: Cookie consent kit Purpose: Stores your preferences for 3rd-party cookies (so you won't be asked again) Cookie type and duration: First-party session cookie deleted after you quit your browser` Yep, your cookie consent cookie is browser session and every page that has a cookie consent banner that sets a cookie so that you won't see it is required to have a cookie consent banner to inform you that you have a cookie tracking your cookie consent.