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Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. GDPR did a lot to shift the window back and put the behaviour of the big adtech companies in the sunlight for a whi
by jddj 6y ago
Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
GDPR did a lot to shift the window back and put the behaviour of the big adtech companies in the sunlight for a while.
The enforcement side is definitely lacking, and black mirror might still have done more to shift opinion, but it's not all bad.
Consumers all over the world now have the ability to request data takeouts and deletions, etc. And anecdotally I've noticed more and more sites honouring the opt in requirement for 3rd party tracking scripts.
It's a solid improvement over the status quo of 2017.
- JeanMarcS 6y agoSadly it mostly still is opt out options. Not later than this morning I wanted to access a forum post. So I go to the privacy page (as a popup proposed me) and then arrived to a page with the list of all the « partners » with access authorized by default. Around 50 of them. No button to refuse all and had to do it one by one. And I visit sites like that every day. I agree that there have been a lot of progress but we are still far from completion.
- colejohnson66 6y agoI’m an American, so forgive my ignorance, but I thought GDPR required explicit opt-in?