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True but it also reflects that the EU has indeed destroyed most goodwill towards it in the last decade regarding most things digital. Most EU initiatives have
by pi-err 4mo ago
True but it also reflects that the EU has indeed destroyed most goodwill towards it in the last decade regarding most things digital.
Most EU initiatives have damaged everyday UX on the web and in tech. Yes, some malicious compliance has played a role by over-reacting to well-intended regulations. But overall the EU has brought this upon itself.
This specific Open Source Strategy memo is typical. It's in fact not a strategy but a list of key goals and requirements, put together in technocratic jargon. It will have zero effect on the actual open source ecosystem.
- snowpid 4mo ago" True but it also reflects that the EU has indeed destroyed most goodwill towards it in the last decade regarding most things digital. " And these criticism destroys any goodwill from me. These are non topics my among political diverse friends. Most people criticise the EU internet regulations are American cry babys. Their arguments are shallow, their knowledge about EU is low.
- dash2 4mo agoIf your friends have never said “man I hate these cookie popups”, they sound like a highly selected group.
- whilenot-dev 4mo agoDon't be silly, the legislation doesn't state that websites have to show cookie popups. It's rather where the term malicious compliance enters the picture, a compliance incentivized by the financial interests of the biggest advertising businesses the world has ever seen.
- M95D 4mo ago^ That, and lazy devs who prefer to add a one-line cookie banner js, than review if they need or even use tracking cookies.
- dash2 4mo agoLet’s accept for the sake of argument that all the cookie banners are malicious compliance. Fine. Then they should change the law to stop the malicious compliance! Regulation has an outcome nobody likes. Are you gonna wait for every company to stop being “malicious”? Or are you gonna fix the law?
- frankvdwaal 4mo agoThe latter, obviously, and that is what's happening with the Digital Omnibus.
- enedil 4mo agoTo be fair, I don't remember people complaining about cookies. The question is fairly simple, etc. Meanwhile ads? They try to steal the attention. So yeah, lots of friends complain about internet ads, not so many about cookies. I'm EU based.
- snowpid 4mo agoMy friends / co worker are computer and non computer people, hobbys, cultural background. Maybe your friend group is highly selected. Which country are you from?
- iamacyborg 4mo ago> Most EU initiatives have damaged everyday UX on the web and in tech. Are you really trying to suggest that GDPR and PECR are bad pieces of legislation because businesses have decided that they’d prefer to give you a bad UX?
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- iamacyborg 4mo agoI read it in full years ago and found it quite clear. Which parts did you find to be vague?
- dash2 4mo agoLook if everyone agrees the outcome of the law has been incredibly annoying, then that is ultimately down to the law and/or its enforcement. The point of the law is to provide incentives to self-interested actors for good behaviour. I see a lot of complacency in these threads, combined with a lot of frankly absurd posturing, like if anybody is against the GDPR, they must’ve been brainwashed by Elon Musk. No! People dislike it because they dislike its practical effects, and frankly the EU should take responsibility for that and try to fix it.
- iamacyborg 4mo ago> People dislike it because they dislike its practical effects, and frankly the EU should take responsibility for that and try to fix it. What’s to fix? A business needs a legitimate reason to process personal data, people need to be sufficiently informed about how their data will be processed. These are not impossible obstacles. Anyone who claims otherwise is acting in bad faith because they know that people would not agree to what the business wants to do with their data.
- blitzar 4mo ago> True but it also reflects that the EU has indeed destroyed most goodwill towards it Or you have been brainwashed by the billions spent annually to make you believe stories about bendy bananas and occult initiation ceremonies as a condition of being a member.
- port11 4mo agoCare to explain?
- samrus 4mo ago> True but it also reflects that the EU has indeed destroyed most goodwill towards it in the last decade regarding most things digital. Not for me, my opinion of things like GDPR and forcing usbc on phones gives me the impression that the EU is holding corporations accountable and looking out for normal people. Its been mentioned before but i feel like while alot of negative views might be organic, alot are also the result of tech companies' smear campaigns against the EU