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Is it really misinformation? The popups may largely be a result of misunderstandings or malicious compliance, but GDPR has a causal relationship regardless of t
by Retr0id 3mo ago
Is it really misinformation? The popups may largely be a result of misunderstandings or malicious compliance, but GDPR has a causal relationship regardless of the intent.
- inigyou 3mo agoWhen the city writes an ordinance saying chemical factories must have fire alarms I do not blame the city for the fire alarm noise.
- Retr0id 3mo agoI would however blame them if they wrote an ordinance that was widely misunderstood to mean that someone had to knock on my door each day to make sure I knew the local chemical factory had a fire alarm.
- buran77 3mo ago> widely misunderstood Moments ago it was "misunderstandings or malicious compliance". Did you misplace one on your apologetic quest? I'm really trying not to assume the worst about you. Is there any reason you insist so much on giving the benefit of the doubt to every law breaker out there? Especially when we're sometimes talking about very deep pockets who can afford lawyers?
- Retr0id 3mo ago> I'm really trying not to assume the worst about you. Well, you are. Maybe don't do that?
- inigyou 3mo agoIf the chemical factory sets themselves on fire every day to set off the fire alarm to annoy me to pressure me into removing the fire alarm law, I still blame them.
- watwut 3mo agoPopups have nothing to do with GDPR. They are reaction to Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive which predates GDPR. And yes, it is deliberate misinformation.
- Retr0id 3mo agoCookie popups pre-date GRPR, but find it hard to believe the uptick in popups that happened around May 2018 was in response to legislation from 2003.
- za_creature 3mo agoCookie popups were once issued by browsers in response to a Set-Cookie header. 25 years ago, it was fairly common to open the login page, type in your creds and _then_ hit "accept cookies from domain.com". Some time after IE6 and Firefox and before Chrome, the default policy switched from "prompt" to "accept". GDPR was an attempt to restore that default behavior, however no browser did so. I'd've guessed Mozilla could be convinced to revert, but Google presumably paid them enough to look the other way.
- buran77 3mo ago> a result of misunderstandings or malicious compliance, but GDPR has a causal relationship regardless of the intent. You can extend causality as far as you want if you're willing to sound like this in the open. If there were no cookies, there'd be no banners. There, found you a new target. So on one side you have decent regulation that tries to balance the interest of the user without over regulating and becoming too prescriptive, and on the other side you have abusers who most of the times are actually in malicious non-compliance... and you find a way to blame the regulation. Good thing it's in the rules that HN is not Reddit.
- Retr0id 3mo agoIf you think I'm opposed to GRPR, you are mistaken.