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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by AllegedAlec on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:20AM (#18326017)
I'm sorry, what? Did you forget the page-covering adds with fake close buttons? The hidden adds which played incredibly loud music at random intervals? The seizure-inducing flashing colours?
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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by nickpp on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:24AM (#18326034)
And it was easy to escape them: just don't visit the offending sites. Free markets at work.

There is no escape from GDPR... Bureaucracy at work.

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Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm... by yorwba on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:36AM (#18326332)
It's just as easy to escape GDPR banners: Just don't visit the offending sites. Free markets at work.

And similar to ads, I expect automated tools to emerge that eliminate most GDPR banners by granting the minimum consent required (optionally alerting the relevant regulator if that's excessively broad) and then revoking it immediately afterwards.

You can't escape bureaucracy, but you can escape the lazy companies who can't think of a better way to deal with bureaucracy than pushing it onto the user.

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