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I believe having privacy laws is a good thing but given EU's track record I am skeptical of their implementation. Their cookie disclosure regulation IMO has co
by gerash 8y ago
I believe having privacy laws is a good thing but given EU's track record I am skeptical of their implementation.
Their cookie disclosure regulation IMO has collectively wasted perhaps millions of hours of users' and website designers' time.
- cyphar 8y agoThe cookie law actually was meant to solve the opt-in consent problem of user tracking that GDPR now solves with much stronger rules -- unfortunately the cookie law was vague enough that websites figured out that the cookie pop-up was sufficient to get around the law. So really, users should be angry with websites for intentionally working around the spirit of the cookie law (and creating the annoying pop-up which basically requires you to consent to cookie tracking if you want to continue to use the website). The EU's mistake was not making the cookie law far more strict.