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The cookie banners are US tech company interpretations of "don't hoover up all the data unless you need it, and if you do, you need consent" You can be complia
by maccard 3y ago
The cookie banners are US tech company interpretations of "don't hoover up all the data unless you need it, and if you do, you need consent"
You can be compliant without a cookie banner - don't collect the data or give a choice when you start collecting the data.
> enforcing Windows have a browser select screen
I think that giving a set of options on first install for preferences like browser is a great thing for the EU to enforce personally.
- rootusrootus 3y agoThis is a good argument that we need better representatives who have some appreciation for how their idealistic regulations will be enacted in real life.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoI was waiting for someone to make that excuse. No, the banners are solely the EUs doing. Their solution to the problem resulted in the banners, so they get the blame. > I think that giving a set of options on first install for preferences like browser is a great thing for the EU to enforce personally. It would have been great in the 90s/2000s. They did it about 10 years too late where everybody downloads whatever browser they want anyway. For most people that would be Chrome. The whole thing only exists because Opera couldn't compete and made a stink about it.