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Re:EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe... by troupo on Thursday May 15, 2025 @12:16PM (#43996526)
> And then we lobbied in "legitimate interest".

There's a charitable way to view it: there are a lot of human endeavours. You can spend a few centuries trying to classify all of them and put them in to law, or you allow "legitimate interests".

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Re:EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe... by PeterStuer on Friday May 16, 2025 @12:14PM (#44007176)
I would be more charitable if this was not the exploit used to make you hunt for 30 or more switches 2 levels deep in a consent dialog to avoid being tracked forever across the entire internet if you ever misclick one on any site visit.
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