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A comment on EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Digital Competition Law. Parent comment

Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by maxcoder4 on Monday March 25, 2024 @12:13PM (#39818134)
>The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to: >(...) >gather analytics data (about user behaviour).

Well they do collect user data using third party services. A bit disappointing, but banners seem to be necessary in this case.

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Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by doublepg23 on Monday March 25, 2024 @02:49PM (#39819940)
Quoting OP

> Cookie prompts is the best example of bad faith compliance

If cookie prompts are used by both by the official EU and GDPR sites then that was clearly the intent of the law.

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Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by aurareturn on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:35PM (#39823419)
You can’t argue with cookie prompt lovers. They love clicking on those useless buttons.
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