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> the GDPR requires opt-in and forbids "click I accept or leave our service" That's an asinine law if I ever saw one. Telling me how I should run my business?
by etatoby 8y ago
> the GDPR requires opt-in and forbids "click I accept or leave our service"
That's an asinine law if I ever saw one. Telling me how I should run my business? Really? From what vantage point, if I may ask?
If I had a company, I would ignore the whole thing and invite them to cross the pond and try their crap in my jurisdiction, under my laws. Or just block them altogether. If they want to go back to the middle ages, let them.
- xg15 8y agoIt's called "regulation". Yes, I think, the GDPR is quite opinionated in that they want to discourage "pay with your data"/"surveillance capitalism" type business models - the reasons have been discussed enough in the last years. I guess the authors understood that without that clause, there would be an obvious loophole that would indeed lead to nothing more than annoying pop-ups and reduce the desired consumer choice to name-only. So they took the logical step to close the loophole. Of course many businesses are trying to counter with a pop-up anyway. But then, that's not the fault of the regulation.