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> I have my own draconian idea: no more performative regulations which are so poorly designed that they are basically impossible to meaningfully enforce. Oh bu

> I have my own draconian idea: no more performative regulations which are so poorly designed that they are basically impossible to meaningfully enforce. Oh but they are enforced, and they are effective. Ever since GDPR passed, the business both on-line and in meatspace cut out plenty of bullshit user-hostile things they were doing. The worst ideas now don't even get proposed, much less implemented. It's a nice, if gradual, shift of cultural defaults. Also, it's very nice to be able to tell some "growth hacker" to fsck off or else I'll CC the local DPA in the next reply, and have it actually work. Not to mention, the popups you're complaining about serve an important function. Because it's not necessary to have them when you're not doing anything abusive, the amount and hostility of the popups is a direct measure of how abusive your business is.

shafyy 2y ago
> Because it's not necessary to have them when you're not doing anything abusive, the amount and hostility of the popups is a direct measure of how abusive your business is. This is a very important point that most (even tech-savyy folks) don't get: If you don't track your users, you don't need to show a consent pop-up. You don't need a consent pop-up for cookies or session storage that is helping the functionality of the website (e.g. storing session information, storing items you have put into your cart, storing user settings). Hell, even if you track your users anonymously, you don't need their consent. This means: If they have a pop-up, they are tracking personally identifiable information. And they sure as hell don't NEED to do that.