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A comment on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones. Parent comment

Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by moviuro on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:29AM (#28629649)
That's a symptom of:

* Stupid webmasters (you don't need that cookie popup for my session cookie)

* Greedy advertisers (that track me) and greedy web publishers that insist on including such privacy-violating scripts and third-parties on their sites

* Sheep user (that have become so accustomed to cookie popups they now just keep pressing the most colorful button)

Long live uBlock origin and its "annoyances" filters.

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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by nickpp on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:32AM (#28629700)
So it's everybody else's fault BUT that of the actual people who created rules?
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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by LeonidasXIV on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:35AM (#28630713)
I generally agree that the rules were well-intentioned, so now we have seen a bunch of loopholes being exploited (basically dark patterns) so I fully expect the next revision of these rules to come down with improvements that would make the current dark patterns illegal.
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