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Neither sound genuine to me. If anything, they sound like a cover for everything else the politicians want to do. Think about the results the EU has achieved i

Neither sound genuine to me. If anything, they sound like a cover for everything else the politicians want to do. Think about the results the EU has achieved in digital. They've managed to: * create pop-ups on almost every website * screwed over regional pricing so that Bulgarians have to pay the same price as Belgians. Somehow region locks still exist though. * tried implementing a system where all ISPs had to save all traffic of their users users * recently the EU adopted a new copyright directive that will force digital platforms to pay money to copyright holders because a user might upload copyrighted content * implemented a digital VAT system that screwed over microbusinesses, because the politicians couldn't be bothered to implement a minimum threshold (they eventually did... After a few years) On the green front more has been done. But I'm not quite thrilled that they banned straws and strong vacuum cleaners. Neither do I like that they seem to be trying to make sure that we end up stuck with confusing USB cables.

estaseuropano 5y ago
A few of your points seem right but several are just wrong or misleading. E.g. GDPR is a great tool just maliciously implemented by companies that have an interest to do so - 90% of the banners you see are purposefully designed to be annoying and delivered by a small group of ad networks. The aim is to grind you down and make you just click anything to get rid of them. But it has also given us Google/Facebook takeout and the right to actually delete your accounts.
- djbebs 5y ago
  Gdpr is totally and complete crap. It has zero redeeming qualities.
- Aerroon 5y ago
  >E.g. GDPR is a great tool just maliciously implemented by companies that have an interest to do so - 90% of the banners you see are purposefully designed to be annoying and delivered by a small group of ad networks. But then why does https://europa.eu/ https://europa.eu/ also have this banner? Surely, if this were so easy then the European Union's commission could at least be able to make a website without the banner, no? And I agree that GDPR isn't all bad, but they had plenty of previous experience to come up with a better system than what we ended up with on the pop-up front. They knew that this would happen, because it happened previously. And yet they did it anyway.

estaseuropano 5y ago

A few of your points seem right but several are just wrong or misleading. E.g. GDPR is a great tool just maliciously implemented by companies that have an interest to do so - 90% of the banners you see are purposefully designed to be annoying and delivered by a small group of ad networks. The aim is to grind you down and make you just click anything to get rid of them. But it has also given us Google/Facebook takeout and the right to actually delete your accounts.

djbebs 5y ago
Gdpr is totally and complete crap. It has zero redeeming qualities.
Aerroon 5y ago
>E.g. GDPR is a great tool just maliciously implemented by companies that have an interest to do so - 90% of the banners you see are purposefully designed to be annoying and delivered by a small group of ad networks. But then why does https://europa.eu/ https://europa.eu/ also have this banner? Surely, if this were so easy then the European Union's commission could at least be able to make a website without the banner, no? And I agree that GDPR isn't all bad, but they had plenty of previous experience to come up with a better system than what we ended up with on the pop-up front. They knew that this would happen, because it happened previously. And yet they did it anyway.