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I hope they will complain about this with the EU. Maybe the EU can stop this nonsense.

kmbfjr 6y ago
I'm sure there will be an EU mandated change that results in an extremely shitty user experience.
Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
[1] might bolster their chances <<Context>> former Apple executive says the Cupertino tech giant uses its "arbitrary" App Store policies "as a weapon" to restrict competition. [1] https://www.techspot.com/news/87038-former-app-store-exec-testifies-apple-rules-weapon.html https://www.techspot.com/news/87038-former-app-store-exec-te...
znpy 6y ago
Afaik ProtonMail is based in Switzerland, thus they might not be able to involve the EU.
- vulcan01 6y ago
  If you scroll to the very bottom of https://protonmail.com https://protonmail.com, you'll find that "This project is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program". I'm not sure whether Swiss companies can apply to this grant, but it does seem like ProtonMail have some sort of relationship with the EU.
- Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
  Correct. But all it needs is for one company that is (or has offices in) the EU to to set a precedent. The US is also making rumblings and I had high hopes when I started reading the senate report [2]that began "Nearly a century ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote: “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” Those words speak to us with great urgency today." However the conclusions (page 375 for the impatient) left me underwhelmed although their comparison to the early heydays of the railroad empire made me chuckle. [2] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7222836/Investigation-of-Competition-in-Digital-Markets.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7222836/Investiga...
marcrosoft 6y ago
Ha, the same group that is responsible for accept cookie popups?
- Barrin92 6y ago
  It's the companies who are responsible for the cookie popups because it's the companies who choose to shove tracking down our throats. The annoying popups are the consequence of that asinine behaviour. What on earth makes you think that the entity who merely made that privacy violation visible and explicit has done anything wrong here?
- ksk 6y ago
  Yeah, who needs warning labels on products?! People ignore them anyway.
heimatau 6y ago
> Maybe the EU can stop this nonsense. IMHO, they are the only entity that has the guts to do something substantial. I'm in the States. It's clear that DC doesn't care but some activists are trying to shift the public perception. It would be better served to focus on the EU's public perception as well (primarily).

I'm sure there will be an EU mandated change that results in an extremely shitty user experience.

Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago

[1] might bolster their chances <<Context>> former Apple executive says the Cupertino tech giant uses its "arbitrary" App Store policies "as a weapon" to restrict competition. [1] https://www.techspot.com/news/87038-former-app-store-exec-testifies-apple-rules-weapon.html https://www.techspot.com/news/87038-former-app-store-exec-te...

znpy 6y ago

Afaik ProtonMail is based in Switzerland, thus they might not be able to involve the EU.

vulcan01 6y ago
If you scroll to the very bottom of https://protonmail.com https://protonmail.com, you'll find that "This project is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program". I'm not sure whether Swiss companies can apply to this grant, but it does seem like ProtonMail have some sort of relationship with the EU.
Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
Correct. But all it needs is for one company that is (or has offices in) the EU to to set a precedent. The US is also making rumblings and I had high hopes when I started reading the senate report [2]that began "Nearly a century ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote: “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” Those words speak to us with great urgency today." However the conclusions (page 375 for the impatient) left me underwhelmed although their comparison to the early heydays of the railroad empire made me chuckle. [2] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7222836/Investigation-of-Competition-in-Digital-Markets.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7222836/Investiga...

marcrosoft 6y ago

Ha, the same group that is responsible for accept cookie popups?

Barrin92 6y ago
It's the companies who are responsible for the cookie popups because it's the companies who choose to shove tracking down our throats. The annoying popups are the consequence of that asinine behaviour. What on earth makes you think that the entity who merely made that privacy violation visible and explicit has done anything wrong here?
ksk 6y ago
Yeah, who needs warning labels on products?! People ignore them anyway.

heimatau 6y ago

> Maybe the EU can stop this nonsense. IMHO, they are the only entity that has the guts to do something substantial. I'm in the States. It's clear that DC doesn't care but some activists are trying to shift the public perception. It would be better served to focus on the EU's public perception as well (primarily).