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Re:The case to legalize single-stair multifamily housing by crazygringo on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:55PM (#39046000)
No, that's entirely Europe. The outcome of the legislation was easy for anyone to see. As you say, it was blinkered and short-sighted. And I still have to click 20 popups away on mobile every day.

If only a few websites had the banner, then maybe I'd blame those websites. But when they virtually all do, I blame the law.

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Re:The case to legalize single-stair multifamily housing by cycomanic on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:49PM (#39046687)
Actually the legislation is fine, much better than before. It's the enforcement that's lacking.

I'd say >90% of cookie banners break the law. It's just that enforcement is only slowly catching up. We have already seen a couple of cases and I expect that as soon as there have been more rulings banners will start to dissappear or become much simpler.

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Re:The case to legalize single-stair multifamily housing by crazygringo on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:53PM (#39046741)
What basis do you have for saying they would disappear?

I've never heard anyone suggest that.

(And them becoming "simpler" is irrelevant. As far as unwanted interruptions go, a popup is a popup.)

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Re:The case to legalize single-stair multifamily housing by drcongo on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:16PM (#39046263)
Just out of interest, you prefer to have your data harvested and sold?
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Re:The case to legalize single-stair multifamily housing by AnimalMuppet on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:21PM (#39046327)
How about: Don't harvest and sell my data, and don't show me a bunch of popups about exactly what data you can collect on me?
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Re:The case to legalize single-stair multifamily housing by drcongo on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:22PM (#39046341)
That is of course the ideal, but what, you're just gonna trust them?
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Re:The case to legalize single-stair multifamily housing by crazygringo on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:40PM (#39046548)
I don't trust a popup a single bit more than no popup.

So it's not like I trust anything either way. Get rid of the popups. Any solution needs to be legal and not involve popups.

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Re:The case to legalize single-stair multifamily housing by beebeepka on Thursday January 18, 2024 @06:28PM (#39049432)
don't use tracking cookies. so complicated!
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