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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by alkonaut on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:05PM (#38088914)
There is no “cookie law” and no mandate that banners are used etc. Regulation should try to avoid languages in specific technology as much as possible - and the GDPR does.
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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by shadowgovt on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:27PM (#38089240)
There's no mandate banners be used in the same sense that there's no "requirement" bungee jumping companies have you sign a waiver; they could just make the experience inherently safer, right?

The banners were an extremely predictable outcome of a badly-crafted law.

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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by alkonaut on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:55PM (#38089655)
I’m not sure how I’d improve the formulation in a way that would remove explicit questions.
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