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The EU didn't get this right - or else they aren't enforcing it. I'm in the EU right now and the crap I see is a popup "We respect your privacy. Us and 352 (not
by nox101 2y ago
The EU didn't get this right - or else they aren't enforcing it. I'm in the EU right now and the crap I see is a popup "We respect your privacy. Us and 352 (not an exaggeration!) of our partners are collecting data on you. Approve or Details?" Pick details and you can spend your time going through the partners
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And most you can't reject
Even more hilarious. pageboard itself said 847 partners!
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- immibis 2y agoThis is mostly unenforced, as it WAS ruled that it must be as easy to reject as to accept. However, they're going after "consent to ads or buy a subscription" which I thought was a pretty fair compromise business model.
- Maarten88 2y agoI'm generally okay with Ads, that is fair. But I'm not okay with tracking, consolidating data about me from different sources, analyzing it and selling that. It is too hard to understand how that may impact me and others.
- ethbr1 2y agoImho, the problem with "consent to ads or buy a subscription" is that it becomes the new CableCARD [0]. I.e. all companies really want to be in the business of tracking customers, because they can repackage derivative products and increase their revenue. So the "subscription" option ends up experiencing a lack of support, mysterious technical issues, underinvestment, etc. End result, customers don't choose it, which businesses use to lobby for further eroding mandates. You can't force a company to provide and support a product they don't want to. You can force them to turn one off. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD