Comment by ACCount37

Comment by ACCount37 20 hours ago

4 replies

Amusing to see GDPR there. It's the law that delivers the most of avoidable user friction online, by far.

It's like they saw how annoying the existing "cookie laws" were and said "we can make it worse!"

GDPR might have had good ideas, but the implementation is so botched it's not even funny. Everything related to cookie consent should have been standardized and delegated to browser settings.

jjani 15 hours ago

> Everything related to cookie consent should have been standardized and delegated to browser settings.

Rather ironic to say this when the entire reason this stuff has been needed is that Google, which has monopolized the browser market, is an advertising company whose core business is tracking people in the first place and does everything in its power to obstruct anything that weakens it.

wqaatwt 12 hours ago

GDPR us much, much more than cookie banners, that’s just an annoying not very significant distraction.

It had a very significant impact privacy, worker rights and such.

  • Ekaros 10 hours ago

    I really sometimes feels there is lot of Cognitive dissonance going on with GDPR. On one side there is hate for these banners. On other hand they also hate when say phone company sells their location data to whoever pays... Or when this data leaks.

    So exactly how is that later part of selling data and gathering it unnecessarily supposed to be avoided if not by regulation like GRPR?

    Maybe it is just entirely different people, but there must be some overlap.