Re:Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking co...
by Nextgrid on Sunday April 24, 2022 @05:29PM
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> Don't use the service.
This is fine if:
1) The true extent of the tracking was disclosed. Before the GDPR that wasn't the case.
2) In practice, this only works for small services with lots of competition. For services which have a monopoly and/or oligopoly (and all of them are equally bad), this isn't a solution.
Maybe the GDPR can be relaxed in a few years/decades after other regulations against monopolies take effect or the monopoly/oligopoly problem self-resolves, but in the meantime I think the current state of the GDPR is valuable.
This is fine if:
1) The true extent of the tracking was disclosed. Before the GDPR that wasn't the case.
2) In practice, this only works for small services with lots of competition. For services which have a monopoly and/or oligopoly (and all of them are equally bad), this isn't a solution.
Maybe the GDPR can be relaxed in a few years/decades after other regulations against monopolies take effect or the monopoly/oligopoly problem self-resolves, but in the meantime I think the current state of the GDPR is valuable.