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I just manually unchecked the cookie permissions for a couple of hundred different ad companies on my Samsung TV. Using my remote. Of course there was a button

I just manually unchecked the cookie permissions for a couple of hundred different ad companies on my Samsung TV. Using my remote. Of course there was a button to accept all of them, but not reject them. How one of the worlds largest companies sells stuff that so blatantly violates the GDPR while web developers at tiny companies sweat over whether we can save an IP for five minutes is beyond me.

Shared404 5y ago
> How one of the worlds largest companies sells stuff that so blatantly violates the GDPR while web developers at tiny companies sweat over whether we can save an IP for five minutes is beyond me. Money solves a lot of problems, and people at tiny companies seem more likely to actually care.
- rdtwo 5y ago
  The fines are the same for both. It’s like Bill gates doesn’t really care if he runs every red light camera on the way home but his maid does.
  - noisem4ker 5y ago
    The fines aren't the same. They scale with damage entity and company turnover. See art. 83 of GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
    - mrjin 5y ago
      Still not scaled enough. Those fines might be staggering to a small company, but for those giants, might be less than 0.5% of net profit. So you can see that Apple/Google/FB etc.. were fined for billions but they simply paid the fine and continue to do what they were doing. The reason behind is actually pretty simple: fixing those problems would probably costing them more.
    - Nextgrid 5y ago
      In practice, the few fines that were issued were nowhere near enough.
paulcole 5y ago
> while web developers at tiny companies sweat over whether we can save an IP for five minutes is beyond me Maybe they shouldn’t? Either block European traffic or do whatever you want and figure it out later when you’re big enough to be on somebody’s radar.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  Given my experience reporting breaches to the ICO and seeing no tangible action even for an actor clearly operating in bad faith and brazenly ignoring the ICO's letters, a head-in-the-sand approach to GDPR compliance is unfortunately a very valid strategy.
  - drcongo 5y ago
    To be fair to the ICO, they're chronically understaffed. The only time I have ever needed them, they did the one thing I needed of them - reply-all to an email accepting the complaint I was making.
mrjin 5y ago
I actually bought a TV box to avoid using those so called smart functions. Samsung TV's design, especially the remote designs are crap, which make switching video source a pain in the neck.

Shared404 5y ago

> How one of the worlds largest companies sells stuff that so blatantly violates the GDPR while web developers at tiny companies sweat over whether we can save an IP for five minutes is beyond me. Money solves a lot of problems, and people at tiny companies seem more likely to actually care.

rdtwo 5y ago
The fines are the same for both. It’s like Bill gates doesn’t really care if he runs every red light camera on the way home but his maid does.
- noisem4ker 5y ago
  The fines aren't the same. They scale with damage entity and company turnover. See art. 83 of GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
  - mrjin 5y ago
    Still not scaled enough. Those fines might be staggering to a small company, but for those giants, might be less than 0.5% of net profit. So you can see that Apple/Google/FB etc.. were fined for billions but they simply paid the fine and continue to do what they were doing. The reason behind is actually pretty simple: fixing those problems would probably costing them more.
  - Nextgrid 5y ago
    In practice, the few fines that were issued were nowhere near enough.

paulcole 5y ago

> while web developers at tiny companies sweat over whether we can save an IP for five minutes is beyond me Maybe they shouldn’t? Either block European traffic or do whatever you want and figure it out later when you’re big enough to be on somebody’s radar.

Nextgrid 5y ago
Given my experience reporting breaches to the ICO and seeing no tangible action even for an actor clearly operating in bad faith and brazenly ignoring the ICO's letters, a head-in-the-sand approach to GDPR compliance is unfortunately a very valid strategy.
- drcongo 5y ago
  To be fair to the ICO, they're chronically understaffed. The only time I have ever needed them, they did the one thing I needed of them - reply-all to an email accepting the complaint I was making.

mrjin 5y ago

I actually bought a TV box to avoid using those so called smart functions. Samsung TV's design, especially the remote designs are crap, which make switching video source a pain in the neck.