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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by 93po on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:22PM (#46461060)
the point of the EU law wasnt to get everyone to plaster banners saying they're selling or giving away your personal info, the point was to make websites stop doing it by shaming them with the banner if they chose to continue anti-privacy behaviors.

the problem isnt the EU, it's the websites

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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by srdjanr on Friday January 02, 2026 @03:58AM (#46462836)
Well if the solution doesn't work in real world, it is EU's problem
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Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups by mwarkentin on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:29AM (#46464127)
Some have done it (repo includes links to main articles covering the process): https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-watchdog

Note: I work for sentry.

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