Re:TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across E...
by pjc50 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:17PM
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"Privacy conscious" need not be "tech hostile".
Personally I feel the problem arose from trying to write extremely generalist legislation in the GDPR without actually addressing the economic incentives OR mandating a technical solution.
Mandating a technical solution such as "respect the DNT header" would have the disadvantage of limiting innovation, but would have forced a clear division of websites into "you can't browse here without turning DNT off" and ones that actually worked properly.
Alternatively, just straight up banning the browser-targeted advertising practice would take away the economic incentive to do this kind of nonsense. That would force the "how do we get paid" question again, which remains awkward.
Personally I feel the problem arose from trying to write extremely generalist legislation in the GDPR without actually addressing the economic incentives OR mandating a technical solution.
Mandating a technical solution such as "respect the DNT header" would have the disadvantage of limiting innovation, but would have forced a clear division of websites into "you can't browse here without turning DNT off" and ones that actually worked properly.
Alternatively, just straight up banning the browser-targeted advertising practice would take away the economic incentive to do this kind of nonsense. That would force the "how do we get paid" question again, which remains awkward.