Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States

Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by crdoconnor on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:54AM (#18120659)

>This is how unintended consequences happen. Complaining how rational actors work around roadblocks has no practical effect. Who someone blames has no practical effect. The downside of looking at the intent of the law and assigning blame towards the market is that it encourages doubling down on these negative actions.

Bounce rates must be through the roof, especially for clickbait. I'm certain that the market has noticed and will respond to this. I strongly doubt that this persistently annoying popup situation will stick around forever.

Ultimately I'm sure some kind of technological solution will emerge - e.g. you set what level of tracking you're happy with on your browser and your browser will fill in the popups for you and report back what the website is doing.

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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by __m on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @08:26AM (#18120866)

This would only work for automatic opt-in. why would companies, that monetize your privacy stop bugging you unless you close that pop-up manually? I imagine there are a lot of people that use their browser with default settings, so there is a chance they don’t actually care about privacy

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