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Re:Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment by cartep on Monday November 12, 2018 @08:54AM (#18432573)
The main defense against tracking used to be (in addition to more modern anti-tracking features) to configure the browser to remove cookies when exiting it.

With the big dialogs that one systematically finds at websites now, in practice you are being forced to accept those cookies, if only to avoid seeing those monster dialogs again.

So in practice the EU is massively driving people to accept permanent cookies. That's IMHO a valid reason to complain about GDPR.

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Re:Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment by lagadu on Monday November 12, 2018 @09:03AM (#18432623)
The cookies dialogs have nothing to do with GDPR.
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Re:Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment by dang on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:28AM (#18439303)
On HN, please don't cross into personal swipes, regardless of how ignorant another comment may be or seem. It's enough to provide correct information.

If you'd review the guidelines and follow them when posting here, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment by TimTheTinker on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:17PM (#18447178)
Reading through your comments, you're mostly correcting others instead of providing interesting thoughts or info. That's more vigilante than not, no?

Note Daniel (dang) is a paid moderator, so it's his job to shepherd/police HN's posts and comments toward the site guidelines.

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