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> The law is updated to say you are not allowed to charge the user a fee unless you tell him in advance. Why not a real regulation then to get rid of hidden fe
by rglullis 3y ago
> The law is updated to say you are not allowed to charge the user a fee unless you tell him in advance.
Why not a real regulation then to get rid of hidden fees and heavy fines/jail time for companies that are found to be doing it?
PG's argument (I hope) is that there is no point in talking about "regulation" and "customer protection" if companies STILL get away with their ridiculous and hostile practices.
There is no customer benefit in having user data collection and tracking. Companies do it only to exploit you. Even the usual BS excuses ("oh, we need user data to customize the experience") could be done completely in-device.
I don't want regulatory bodies to just give more hoops for other companies to jump. They will jump it anyway, because it is profitable to do so. What I want is for regulatory bodies to effectively stop predatory practices.
- danaris 3y agoI mean, that would be great, but I suspect that even just here on HN you'd get a lot of people strongly disagreeing with you. Because that would infringe upon the companies' "freedom" to profit in whatever way they see fit—and the people's "freedom" to let their data be vacuumed up and sold for massive profits.
- rglullis 3y agoWhether they agree or not is irrelevant. I think that PG's argument is that all the "regulation" and "strength of the EU" amounts to nothing. It's just people pretending to play power games, doing privacy theater and solving absolutely zero problems.