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I see a second round of legislation might be needed. They'll get it right eventually.
by kubb 9mo ago
I see a second round of legislation might be needed. They'll get it right eventually.
- input_sh 9mo agoEh, there's no specific definition of interoperability written in the Digital Markets Act. It's decided on a case-by-case basis and I'm sure that the legislators in charge of this case will push back on this piss-poor implementation in like a year from now. By the time this back-and-forth reaches its end, these two will find some shady b2b customers and are gonna be touted as "successful European startups".
- Bratmon 9mo agoThey never got cookie popups right. What makes you so confident?
- jorvi 9mo agoThey got cookie pop-ups right, current rules: - the default choice needs to be "strictly necessary cookies - with other less prominent buttons for "allow all" and "deny all" - a site is not allowed to force you to have the press a bunch of buttons or select a bunch of things to deny most/all cookies The problem lies in enforcement. Unless you are a huge player, there is almost nil chance you're gonna get fined. I think about the only thing missing is that they should have RFC'd a standard akin to Do Not Track, except this would have communicated to sites if your default is "strictly necessary", "allow all" or"deny all". With it being set to "strictly necessary" by default.
- palata 9mo ago> The problem lies in enforcement. Unless you are a huge player, there is almost nil chance you're gonna get fined. I am curious: why is that difficult? Define the fine as a percentage of the revenue of the company, have users report links, and pay someone to check the link and send the fine. Sounds like easy money... I mean it's very profitable to pay people to check parking lots and fine drivers who don't follow the regulations. This should be even more profitable?
- xmcp123 9mo agoIf I am business outside Europe, why would I send Europe what my revenue is?
- direwolf20 9mo agoI don't know — why do businesses outside Europe care about GDPR compliance at all? They could just track Europeans all they want to, without any cookie banners.
- xmcp123 9mo agoTbh most do. It makes sense only for big companies with a multinational presence. But admitting you are subject to the laws of a country/entity is one thing, sending them your books (when your company is not based there) is kind of on a different level
- palata 9mo agoIf you don't care about GDPR at all, then you don't have a cookie banner. So if you have the abusive cookie banner, I think it's fair to say that you care about Europe.
- kubb 9mo agoOptimistic. They've got sideloading done, browser and search choice done, ad transparency done, more choice for payments done, many dark patterns banned. The gears are turning slowly, but they're doing really useful work.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoAlso, there's a lot of hate from US commenters but don't forget that the US was trying to do the same when it still had a sane administration. The DoJ was trying to stop the Google search deal, trying to split them up etc. Big tech is too big and this is a problem everywhere.