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I really don't care about cookies when visiting any website, I have a residential IP address tracking me using this is pretty much equivalent to having a cookie

by soheil 6y ago

I really don't care about cookies when visiting any website, I have a residential IP address tracking me using this is pretty much equivalent to having a cookie, yet I'm forced to accept a cookie which has near zero effect on my privacy all the while not being under the jurisdiction of EU laws regardless. This is part of the web, when creating legislation that attempts to block/censor or circumvent technology that is already widely used it's in the highest degree repressive and when there are good intentions behind those laws it's just plain dumb. I wonder how better EU tax payer money would have been used if they were spent on advocating a change to the browser vendors/W3C instead of on law makers exerting their power way beyond their rein. What is the best Chrome ext to auto accept cookies?

apexalpha 6y ago
No EU lawmaker has ever said GDPR will be enforced worldwide. It's Github's and other sites' own choice to enforce it worldwide. They could also build two seperate websites. The fact that this laws' reach is almost global is something called the Brussels Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect But there is also the other way: simply not show a website in Europe at all. I see this sometimes when I click a link: https://imgur.com/a/A5S4drS https://imgur.com/a/A5S4drS
- soheil 6y ago
  > No EU lawmaker has ever said GDPR will be enforced worldwide It literally takes 3 seconds to analyze the game theoretical effect of such a law to recognize its reach is well beyond Europe and therefore also clearly understood it to be such when passed.
  - Veen 6y ago
    Curiously, the EU cares more about the privacy of EU residents than it does annoying people who live elsewhere. Additionally, it "literally takes 3 seconds" to realize that the solution is to remove tracking cookies or block people from the EU if you don't want their business.
    - soheil 6y ago
      I think you're missing the point, I don't have that choice as the user of websites. When I'm googling for an answer I cannot choose which website I visit based on the sophistication of their cookie banner before I visit it.

by soheil 6y ago

apexalpha 6y ago

No EU lawmaker has ever said GDPR will be enforced worldwide. It's Github's and other sites' own choice to enforce it worldwide. They could also build two seperate websites. The fact that this laws' reach is almost global is something called the Brussels Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect But there is also the other way: simply not show a website in Europe at all. I see this sometimes when I click a link: https://imgur.com/a/A5S4drS https://imgur.com/a/A5S4drS

soheil 6y ago
> No EU lawmaker has ever said GDPR will be enforced worldwide It literally takes 3 seconds to analyze the game theoretical effect of such a law to recognize its reach is well beyond Europe and therefore also clearly understood it to be such when passed.
- Veen 6y ago
  Curiously, the EU cares more about the privacy of EU residents than it does annoying people who live elsewhere. Additionally, it "literally takes 3 seconds" to realize that the solution is to remove tracking cookies or block people from the EU if you don't want their business.
  - soheil 6y ago
    I think you're missing the point, I don't have that choice as the user of websites. When I'm googling for an answer I cannot choose which website I visit based on the sophistication of their cookie banner before I visit it.