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Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by azalemeth on Saturday October 23, 2021 @11:11AM (#28969240)
The thing I noticed most is that in Denmark, Danish sites follow both the letter and thespirit of GDPR. I was looking at trying to pay my electricity bill the other night and got told that because my version of FF sent the Do Not Track header, they'd automatically "objected" to all cookies and branding beyond necessary ones and I didn't need to do anything else. Those big banners have a simple "yes to only necessary" or "yes to all" button at the bottom.

American sites on the other hand tell me either "tough, take our spyware if you want to see this site, or to to a restricted list of five pages" (which I'm pretty sure isn't legal under GDPR); throw up the gauntlet of 1000 tick-boxes, infinitely nested, or say "you're from the EU and we can't serve you page".

The problem is cultural. I've de-googled myself as much as possible, but I don't like the fact that all of my real mobile device choices are written in California and made in china.

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Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by thawSeh6s2p on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:17PM (#28972364)
Almost every site has the "Yes to necessary" or "yes to all" now, it's not in the banner but generally IME if I click the "select" option it automatically has all the "optional" cookies turned off. Just two clicks instead of one. I think since the majority of people are too lazy for two clicks they see "select which ones", say whatever and just accept all so hiding the fact you don't actually have to select works in the site's favor.
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Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by azeirah on Saturday October 23, 2021 @02:08PM (#28970865)
Samsung is neither Chinese nor Californian. Their phones are designed in south korea and manufactured in South korea, indonesia and brazil.
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Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by onedognight on Saturday October 23, 2021 @02:22PM (#28970972)
The GP’s point was that Android/G-Suite/Firmware, the software on Samsung phones, is substantially “written in California”. That seems true enough in spirit.
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