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Comment by MikeGale | Hacker News Reader

The legislators in the EU are an example of what happens when the clueless, make law. Their GDPR has apparently only benefitted Google, with Facebook taking the smallest hit of the rest.

Many want these behemoths to get less power but these EU guys give them more.

Now this.

One answer it to ghettoise Europe and block them from receiving your content. For one thing that would get rid of those stupid "we use cookies things".

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I so hate the cookies thing. It's led me to have to actually read popups rather than immediately close them, and sometimes I end up accepting something that I thought was a cookie popup but was something else.

Absolutely infuriating. Most every site uses cookies, I know that, I don't need to be told that, and your average user doesn't even care.

What everyone implements has nothing to do with what the "cookie law" actually requires. You are supposed to be able to reject tracking cookies and it does not affect other cookies (e.g. for logging in) at all.

The problem is that the law is not being enforced.

You can install Ublock Origin and add cookie notification blocker list, then you will see much less those annoying boxes.

I just want my browser to know how to manage my cookies.

And to some extent, my browser already does that: I refuse third-party cookies. Only now I get popups telling me to accept third-party cookies because otherwise they won't be able to remember my choice to reject their cookies.

It's a mess. I want smarter browsers that give me more control over this stuff.

Some sites are doing this. I logged into my Slickdeals account on vacation and they had an automated system that locked my account and forced me to affirm that I didn't live in Europe or else they would close my account.

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