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Re:Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims Tha... by loeg on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:45AM (#43298062)
The GDPR has had huge and shitty impact on the entire internet. It's night and day with cookie banners on every website. DMCA has pros and cons. But it's clear the lack of real penalties for bogus copyright notifications leads to abuse.
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Re:Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims Tha... by bee_rider on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:48AM (#43298078)
The cookie banners aren’t mandated by the GDPR, they are malicious sites’ response to the GDPR.
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Re:Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims Tha... by yellow_postit on Saturday March 08, 2025 @02:02AM (#43298136)
They were/are and entirely predictable response.

The broader issue with GDPR is the benefit it gives incumbents over startups.

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Re:Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims Tha... by bee_rider on Saturday March 08, 2025 @02:20AM (#43298249)
It might not be the best result, but at least the bad sites are identifying themselves.
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Re:Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims Tha... by p3rls on Saturday March 08, 2025 @07:48AM (#43299818)
Lol, when GDPR came out one of our euro devs was threatening to walk out if we didn't put a banner up because he thought he'd be personally fined.

Now it's obvious of course.

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Re:Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims Tha... by loeg on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:54PM (#43302491)
Where did I claim cookie banners were mandated by the GDPR? I don't think this is responsive to my comment.
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Re:Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims Tha... by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B on Saturday March 08, 2025 @06:27AM (#43299344)
The GDPR is unrelated to the internet. It is very deep and protects my personal information in every company. Please educate yourself.
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Re:Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims Tha... by loeg on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:53PM (#43302489)
This is not responsive to my comment.
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