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I don't give the slightest fuck about GDPR because of the dumbass cookie popups they forced on every single site.

It is working. They are getting you willing to oppose your own best interests!

I and I alone will decide my best interests.

It baffles be that people are mad at the GDPR for making websites be clear about how they share your privacy data instead of being mad at websites for not changing the way their operate in order not to need such a pop up in the first place.

Advertising is a hell of a drug.

Who really gives a shit about advertising cookie tracking though? Just a few purist geeks on their high horses. And the rest of us suffer with these popups.

I blame the GDPR for being drafted in a way that allowed this mess.

This is exactly the reason the law exists: that people can't actually be expected to understand the consquences. I sure don't - so I'm glad someone else looks after my interests.

I can imagine how you can believe that privacy is not a significant or real concern, what I can't imagine is how you think your annoyance with cookie permission popups is somehow more significant.

It's more significant to me. In-your-face consent pop-ups are a multiple times daily annoyance. Targeted ads while creepy don't interrupt your task. After all you will be seeing an ad anyway, whether it is targeted or not hardly makes a difference.

This "cure" is worse than the problem it tries to solve.

Most of Europeans do. You might not care in the moment but you will care if you know how these profiles are used, sold and resold, ...

Sold to whom and used for what?

If the answer is "to target advertising" then what is the danger?

If the answer is something else, I'm all ears...

Gdpr does not force the banners. It forces to ask for consent before tracking users across sites. This doesn't have to be a banner and it doesn't have to be if you only use technical cookies (login, session, ..)

You only need consent if you include Google analytics or ads or a similar platform. Those platforms push the banners on people, pretending that those are needed.

The reason you see the banners everywhere is that a huge number of sites integrate these spy services.

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