The costs are externalized yes but in many of these cases the person losing some privacy also benefits.
Smoking might cure anxiety but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t give you lung cancer...
Re:Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
by Micrococonut on Saturday June 02, 2018 @10:57AM
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So people shouldn't be allowed to smoke if they want to?
If they want that’s fine but it’s damaging behaviour for society so it will be taxed and/or regulated.
Re:Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
by merinowool on Saturday June 02, 2018 @05:56PM
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The reason it is taxed is because they can get away with it.
I assume you live in a country without free medical care? I don’t.
Re:Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
by merinowool on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:06PM
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I live in a country with tax funded healthcare.
And you're very likely using the services of one of the big players, like Google, the very ones you're suggesting should be explicitly targeted in another message below.
Like I said before, including to you: the EU does not owe companies a business model, especially when the costs of that business are externalized to citizens of the EU and of the world.
Your so-called alternative at the end is just more of the arrogant snubbing typical of the advertising industry.