EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances

Re:EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances by duxup on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:22AM (#21126349)

I guess I'm not following.

I generally don't think the banners educate or help anyone and folks are happy to hit accept and roll on. Not much has changed.

As for if people run a site based on add revenue or not is sort of an entirely different issue / I don't think folks would like the results.

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Re:EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances by eitland on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:30AM (#21126463)

> folks are happy to hit accept and roll on.

My guess is: They are not happy. They accept it because a lot of effort is put in dark patterns to make it seem unavoidable.

Also a lot of effort seems to have been put into making the opt-in alternative the default - to the point where I'm not comfortable calling it opt-in any more.

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Re:EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances by dmitriid on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:06PM (#21127011)

And that is not compliant with GDPR. Unless companies get hit with fines, this will continue.

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