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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by outside2344 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @09:42AM (#16875809)
My counter example to this is that nobody in the US does the super annoying cookie popup thing that's required in the EU already - why would they do GDPR which is orders of magnitude more complicated.
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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by civilitty on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:54AM (#16876400)
My counter example is that I live in the US and I see that cookie popup seemingly almost everywhere I go.
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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by the_watcher on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:16AM (#16876044)
I live in the US and am constantly annoyed by the stupid cookie popup.
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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by chopin on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:52AM (#16876904)
You are annoyed by stupid people who think they need a bunch of third party trackers on their site. Nobody, even not the EU, has problems with first party cookies.

This will change anyways with the GDPR.

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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by the_watcher on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:58PM (#16880540)
Agreed that many, if not most, of the trackers on most websites are at the very least overkill, if not actively negative. I disagree that I need to be reminded that websites use cookies with a modal or popover every single time I visit a website that I visit daily.
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