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I so agree with this. I find the level of admiration for this painful law absurd. I'm stuck in Europe. I was fine without the GDPR. Now, I waste my time clicki
by dash2 7y ago
I so agree with this. I find the level of admiration for this painful law absurd.
I'm stuck in Europe. I was fine without the GDPR. Now, I waste my time clicking "accept" because I don't have time to deal with this crap. Meanwhile, my university has hired what my stepfather would have called a "tweety little person" to police GDPR regulations. God knows what she does (she doesn't). God knows in what single way she has improved a single person's life. But she has a job now, and by God, she'll fight for it.
I care about privacy, but there were options to manage this already - like browser extensions. You could download them if you cared, and if you didn't want to, you didn't have to. Government regulation, demanded by zealots, has added one hundred tiny frustrations per day to millions of ordinary people, caused an expensive pain to thousands of small websites, and created a new, wholly useless compliance industry.
And is Facebook tracking me any less? Ha ha ha. Facebook can afford lawyers.
- koonsolo 7y agoWow, finally a like minded person! The argument I always hear is "Ordinary people don't know about cookies so it's the websites responsibility". As if ordinary people now understand cookies. It's all a big fiasco, supported by people who think theory works in practice.