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You can actually opt out of this. Vote for politicians that want to regulate this into illegality.

hulitu 2y ago
> You can actually opt out of this. Vote for politicians that want to regulate this into illegality. The parliament has more than one politician and the advertising companies pay better. To opt out of it you need to put politicians in jail for conflict of interest and bribes and make campains against big tech (which could lead to your "suicide). Good luck with that.
- xico 2y ago
  Isn’t it what the EU is doing step by step to protect its citizens? Politicians should be jailed, both on the legislative and executive side, including Presidents, if they ignore the law. France is showing this once again with hopeful Marine Le Pen and former president Sarkozy, together with dozens of their associates.
lclc 2y ago
But then the government couldn't track you anymore with the help of those companies.
whobre 2y ago
There are no such politicians, and even if they were your vote does not matter.
- stavros 2y ago
  Laughs in GDPR
tirant 2y ago
Instead of making something illegal, that might be perfectly acceptable for someone else, why don’t take a personal decision to stop using those services altogether? It’s very tempting to impose our own personal truths to everybody else’s via politics, but that’s a quite close approach to totalitarianism.
- stavros 2y ago
  Why would I stop using the services when I can use the law to keep using them without being tracked? > It’s very tempting to impose our own personal truths to everybody else’s via politics, but that’s a quite close approach to totalitarianism. "Regulation is totalitarianism" is a take that's too hot for me today.
- smt88 2y ago
  > Instead of making something illegal, that might be perfectly acceptable for someone else, why don’t take a personal decision to stop using those services altogether? Because there is no competition in the marketplace based on privacy, and if I want to use the services my friends/family/employer use, then I'm forced to give up my privacy. The free market has never and will never solve a problem like this. The only thing that ever has is regulation and this is a textbook case of what regulation is for.

> You can actually opt out of this. Vote for politicians that want to regulate this into illegality. The parliament has more than one politician and the advertising companies pay better. To opt out of it you need to put politicians in jail for conflict of interest and bribes and make campains against big tech (which could lead to your "suicide). Good luck with that.

xico 2y ago
Isn’t it what the EU is doing step by step to protect its citizens? Politicians should be jailed, both on the legislative and executive side, including Presidents, if they ignore the law. France is showing this once again with hopeful Marine Le Pen and former president Sarkozy, together with dozens of their associates.

lclc 2y ago

But then the government couldn't track you anymore with the help of those companies.

whobre 2y ago

There are no such politicians, and even if they were your vote does not matter.

stavros 2y ago
Laughs in GDPR

tirant 2y ago

Instead of making something illegal, that might be perfectly acceptable for someone else, why don’t take a personal decision to stop using those services altogether? It’s very tempting to impose our own personal truths to everybody else’s via politics, but that’s a quite close approach to totalitarianism.

stavros 2y ago
Why would I stop using the services when I can use the law to keep using them without being tracked? > It’s very tempting to impose our own personal truths to everybody else’s via politics, but that’s a quite close approach to totalitarianism. "Regulation is totalitarianism" is a take that's too hot for me today.
smt88 2y ago
> Instead of making something illegal, that might be perfectly acceptable for someone else, why don’t take a personal decision to stop using those services altogether? Because there is no competition in the marketplace based on privacy, and if I want to use the services my friends/family/employer use, then I'm forced to give up my privacy. The free market has never and will never solve a problem like this. The only thing that ever has is regulation and this is a textbook case of what regulation is for.