While I agree that cookie warnings are an example of good intentions gone bad, as an EU resident I am EXTREMELY grateful for the consumer protection laws and pr

While I agree that cookie warnings are an example of good intentions gone bad, as an EU resident I am EXTREMELY grateful for the consumer protection laws and privacy laws that ultimately resulted in that decision. Whenever I'm at an international conference and see a talk about challenging ethical problems in software development it ends up being about practices that would be blatantly illegal under EU (and specifically, German) law in the first place. Not every aspect of SV startup culture is awesome. I'm quite happy to live in a country where certain unethical behavior just isn't legal, even if it means less innovation and less bloated valuations.