Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B...
by a4isms on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:13AM
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Rules in sports are always being adjusted, and participants are always looking for (barely legal) ways to get around them.
Example: In cycling, they banned narrow handlebars. There's an aero advantage, but it was seen as a safety problem. So cyclists canted their brake hoods way inside, rested their hands on the brake hoods, and got an aero advantage.
And now there's a rule about brake hoods. Laws are meant only be living things that change as society changes, and also change to patch what we might call "exploits." You are perfectly correct: It's never one and done, it's an ongoing process.
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B...
by jeroenhd on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:37AM
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This is part of why a lot of EU directives are almost 50% "why this law is necessary and what we're trying to achieve", 30% "what needs to be implemented", and then 20% "who's going to look after all of this and how".
That way, a misplaced comma or a wonky sentence doesn't allow for easy loopholes that need tighter laws to fix issues.
Now law text will work forever, but this format makes for a very solid foundation.
It's impossible to write things correctly the first or final time and especially with the interpretation of words changing over time it doesn't matter if you could.