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The execution of the Javascript does not occur on the company's resources. It occurs on the visitors computer, over their own Internet connection. Both which ar
by macinjosh 7y ago
The execution of the Javascript does not occur on the company's resources. It occurs on the visitors computer, over their own Internet connection. Both which are in their full control.
- icebraining 7y agoThe sentence is still correct, not "categorically false". > Both which are in their full control. So is your car when you leave the car wash, yet if they had put something damaging in the gas tank, I'm betting you'd complain about them.
- macinjosh 7y agoI'd complain. I wouldn't demand from them millions of dollars or suggest they be locked up in a cage like the EU would.
- icebraining 7y agoComplaining makes sense, but when you've been doing it for twenty years (the Data Protection Directive, which prohibited many of the same behaviours but didn't impose specific penalties, is from 1995) and you see that businesses keep recklessly doing the same behaviours, you might learn what economists have been saying: they only respond to incentives, and so the EU had to set some of it wished to see its complaints taken seriously. And so the EU joined the US into fining companies a few million for privacy violations.