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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by Barrin92 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:43PM (#39392944)
I'd personally love a sort of anti-trust czar who can just very unbureaucratically slap large tech companies with sensitive fines.

If you had someone like that in charge and the moment companies engage in malicious compliance (for example cookie acceptance dark patterns) you go "now you pay 2% of your revenue in fines, you pull the same thing again we'll double the fine next month", how long does it take until companies play ball?

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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by JayPalm on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:20AM (#39394492)
Just imagine all the corruption that would be possible!
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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by MrDresden on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:10AM (#39394828)
You do realise that this position is by appointment by a council made up of members voted in by representative democracies, right?

That there are checks and balances (courts and oversight committees) that weigh in regularly on decisions made by these kinds of appointed offices, right?

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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by buzzert on Saturday February 17, 2024 @03:02AM (#39407435)
Of course, that's always how it works!
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