I was quite glad to see this quote in there: > Dr Johnny Ryan said "Today's court's decision shows that the consent system used by Google, Amazon, X, Microsoft

I was quite glad to see this quote in there: > Dr Johnny Ryan said "Today's court's decision shows that the consent system used by Google, Amazon, X, Microsoft, deceives hundreds of millions of Europeans. The tech industry has sought to hide its vast data breach behind sham consent popups. Tech companies turned the GDPR into a daily nuisance rather than a shield for people." I feel this so often gets lost in the conversation where a huge amount of people in communities like this one will loudly point out how annoying consent banners are but never give any thought as to why so many websites feel that just because you want to read a single article on their website that they are now entitled to sell your information often to hundreds and even thousands of different data brokers and that this is now so normalised that it’s almost every bit of content I consume now. The original purpose of the GDPR was clearly to try and put an end to this kind of thing while still leaving cutouts for legitimate purposes with informed consent. I’m so glad to see them come at this from a new angle entirely now to just firmly say that this surveillance capitalism bullshit is illegal and you can’t cookie banner your way out of it as some kind of legal protection. Good, that makes me extremely happy as an EU resident and I wholeheartedly support whatever steps you need to take in order to enforce this. There’s no reason at this point to continue playing nice with US spyware companies masquerading as “data brokers”, let them deal with the mess they made but we don’t need it here.