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It's sad that companies act so immorally that GDPR must exist.

But I guess it's good this guy found yet another way to recover lost data?

In that regard, which law isn't sad?

Very true. But GDPR is pure annoyance. I wish they would 100X consequences of offenders and quit wasting development time on the worthless permission prompts.

Permission prompts are the wrong way to approach a generally good feature. It would be much more useful if you could configure the permissions you want to give once and for all in your client (browser), and there would be a standard to communicate that transparently to the server.

I keep making the same settings over and over again with different websites. That should not be necessary.

Having browser-wide permissions is actually allowed for if the constent string is stored in the consensu.org cookie. But website owners choose to use their own cookies.

Meh, I want notifications on for whatsapp but I definitely don't want them on news sites. This is the wrong way to go about this IMO. Just a default, should definitely be overridable.

>GDPR is pure annoyance

Is it? I'm the marketing manager of a European app publishers with around 5 millions active monthly users (and many times more if we account for the SDK that we license to other developers). We operates cloud services as part of our offering too. We find it very easy to comply with GDPR.

As for me, I'm very glad as the end users to be protected by GDPR. I've had my data deleted or unpublished about a dozen times since the law has been enacted. And all the people around me are far more careful with how they share their data (and mine! e.g switching to Signal vs Facebook Messenger, or ProtonMail vs Gmail...).

It's also sad that humans act so immorally that laws forbidding rape and murder must exist. Or maybe it's good that we can come together as a society and agree that these things are bad? Who knows

Well the big difference is that even without laws against rape and murder it is generally still a big exception. On the other hand tracking, carelessness with personal data, privacy violations etc. have been very much the norm with all companies (and arguably still are) even before the GDPR.

More than two things can be bad at once. What is the point of this hot-take?

>But I guess it's good this guy found yet another way to recover lost data?

He wanted a backup he could control in case he loses his account, he gets banned or the company dies.

Is it mission critical?

Sometimes a data loss can be quite liberating.

I am not the author, but it could be important (all your past TODO) even if is not life threatening.

Also the service provided the active tasks as an export so same workflow could be copy-pasted and you update the SQL to include completed tasks too. The issue probably is that the priorities are different and implementing this would mean managers, designers and other "experts" would need to agree first.

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