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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by JCWasmx86 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @10:59AM (#30661782)
The only fault the EU has for the "accept cookie"-disaster is, that it didn't make tracking illegal and even bigger fines. It is only the fault of the companies that want to track us, not of the EU
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by GreenWatermelon on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:28AM (#30662053)
Indeed. The cookie disaster is because the EU is being too nice. Of they actually brought down the hammer we would see a much nicer internet landscape.

I'm always all in for government regulation, as long as those regulations are in the benefits of the common man.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by fragmede on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:47PM (#30663782)
And (lacking) a fine multiplier for making the opt-out UI confusing.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by systemvoltage on Sunday March 13, 2022 @02:03PM (#30663989)
It is indirectly due to EU's regulation. Average user doesn't care about your nuanced take, people around the world, billions of times have been annoyed by the cookie banner. If anything, the GDP lost due to this annoyance on a daily basis is probably in the millions if not billions of dollars.
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