Re:Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced e...
by asldfhasdf2 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @09:33AM
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hate to say that but "check your privilege".
You know what cookies are and made your informed decision to accept them in your browsers. I do not, for example, and block most of them.
99% of internet users do not had that knowledge before those "stupid click-through warnings everywhere".
So if you want to write off the outcome of the EU cookie law, it is not "entitled Californian software engineers got a little annoyed", but instead "the whole world woke up to the fact advertising companies are tracking everything they do online via cookies".
You know what cookies are and made your informed decision to accept them in your browsers. I do not, for example, and block most of them.
99% of internet users do not had that knowledge before those "stupid click-through warnings everywhere".
So if you want to write off the outcome of the EU cookie law, it is not "entitled Californian software engineers got a little annoyed", but instead "the whole world woke up to the fact advertising companies are tracking everything they do online via cookies".