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There is a difference between people - it works on some and it doesn't on others :) That's wht you have GDPR consent :)

JohnFen 2y ago
> That's wht you have GDPR consent I wish. The GDPR isn't as strong as I would like to see, but it's light years ahead of the nothing I have right now.
mgraybosch 2y ago
This isn’t relevant in the USA, and if anybody who isn’t a close friend texts me I will report it as spam. You are not entitled to my attention.
iwanttocomment 2y ago
Alas, as I am not in the EU, my cell phone is not covered by the regulations of the GDPR. That being said, I do continually have to click through ridiculous GDPR cookie announcements, as I generally browse incognito, and thus am subject to cookie warnings on every web site every time. "Thanks, EU. Somehow, because I have cookies disabled, I get every cookie warning imaginable. Good job, idiots."
- JohnFen 2y ago
  Your reaction is exactly the one that website operators hope you'll have, and is why they subject you to those things.
  - iwanttocomment 2y ago
    They hope that I have cookies disabled by browsing incognito? Or they just want to subject me to nonsensical popups to be jerks? What? Huh?
    - JohnFen 2y ago
      They want to subject you to those popups in order for you to get annoyed by them and blame the GDPR for it (and hopefully get some sort of popular uprising against the GDPR). However, the GDPR is not to blame. Those popups are a choice the website operators are making.
      - iwanttocomment 2y ago
        Noooo, they can't tell if I'm a new browser or not and they display these incessant, idiotic GDPR warnings because I don't have cookies enabled lol. How would they know whether or not they displayed the warning before without me having a cookie indicating whether or not they displayed the cookie warning? Answer: they can't. The EU politicians did not think this through. Like, just send everyone a postcard about cookies and be done with it. Literally this is the dumbest law ever. I love consumer protections, and yet this is the most idiotic thing we all have to deal with on a literal daily basis because nobody understands how cookies work, apparently.
        marssaxman 2y ago
        The point of the law was not to require everyone to nag you about all the tracking they are doing, but to discourage them from tracking you. Cookie popups are just a collective form of malicious compliance.
        iwanttocomment 2y ago
        Yes, yes, the EU cookie compliance law requires documenting and storing consent received from users. And how do you do that, for any user not logged in? You understand how this works, right? THROUGH COOKIES. WHICH YOU HAVE TO NOTIFY THE VISITOR OF. It's literally the dumbest law imaginable.
        JohnFen 2y ago
        The point was to discourage doing the sort of data collection that requires consent. Websites that don't want to spy on you and don't have an inherent need to collect protected information about you don't need to get consent to begin with. The very fact that a website is presenting a cookie popup to you is effectively an admission that the website is engaging in unsavory practices. When I see one, I think twice about using the site.

> That's wht you have GDPR consent I wish. The GDPR isn't as strong as I would like to see, but it's light years ahead of the nothing I have right now.

mgraybosch 2y ago

This isn’t relevant in the USA, and if anybody who isn’t a close friend texts me I will report it as spam. You are not entitled to my attention.

iwanttocomment 2y ago

Alas, as I am not in the EU, my cell phone is not covered by the regulations of the GDPR. That being said, I do continually have to click through ridiculous GDPR cookie announcements, as I generally browse incognito, and thus am subject to cookie warnings on every web site every time. "Thanks, EU. Somehow, because I have cookies disabled, I get every cookie warning imaginable. Good job, idiots."

JohnFen 2y ago
Your reaction is exactly the one that website operators hope you'll have, and is why they subject you to those things.
- iwanttocomment 2y ago
  They hope that I have cookies disabled by browsing incognito? Or they just want to subject me to nonsensical popups to be jerks? What? Huh?
  - JohnFen 2y ago
    They want to subject you to those popups in order for you to get annoyed by them and blame the GDPR for it (and hopefully get some sort of popular uprising against the GDPR). However, the GDPR is not to blame. Those popups are a choice the website operators are making.
    - iwanttocomment 2y ago
      Noooo, they can't tell if I'm a new browser or not and they display these incessant, idiotic GDPR warnings because I don't have cookies enabled lol. How would they know whether or not they displayed the warning before without me having a cookie indicating whether or not they displayed the cookie warning? Answer: they can't. The EU politicians did not think this through. Like, just send everyone a postcard about cookies and be done with it. Literally this is the dumbest law ever. I love consumer protections, and yet this is the most idiotic thing we all have to deal with on a literal daily basis because nobody understands how cookies work, apparently.
      - marssaxman 2y ago
        The point of the law was not to require everyone to nag you about all the tracking they are doing, but to discourage them from tracking you. Cookie popups are just a collective form of malicious compliance.
        iwanttocomment 2y ago
        Yes, yes, the EU cookie compliance law requires documenting and storing consent received from users. And how do you do that, for any user not logged in? You understand how this works, right? THROUGH COOKIES. WHICH YOU HAVE TO NOTIFY THE VISITOR OF. It's literally the dumbest law imaginable.
        JohnFen 2y ago
        The point was to discourage doing the sort of data collection that requires consent. Websites that don't want to spy on you and don't have an inherent need to collect protected information about you don't need to get consent to begin with. The very fact that a website is presenting a cookie popup to you is effectively an admission that the website is engaging in unsavory practices. When I see one, I think twice about using the site.