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Of course. Any engineer would solve it that way. And it ran just fine as a browser setting since the 1990s. But the EU isn’t run by engineers. It’s run by bureaucrats who try to save the web without understanding it. They’ve heard nothing of Chesterton’s Fence.

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The GDPR is a sensible legislation and no amount of FUD can change that. If you can't explain what you are doing with personal data, you shouldn't be allowed to handle it.

You are also confusing legislation with rulings. GDPR says your business interests cannot outweigh my rights. That's it. Now courts find that leaking my IP address to third countries is something that harms me more than it does your business good. I can live with that.

Im pretty sure EU passed GDPR as a response to brexit figgling and facebook/google avoiding paying taxes.” Hurting EU market immensly.

Politics dont understand the web but noticed its dengerous if left unregulated.

Not really. GDPR preparations predated the Brexit vote. It was even completed and passed several months before the vote even happened (back when everyone still expected it to fail, even Cameron who initiated it has no expectation it would pass)

And EU tax avoidance is mainly done through Ireland and the Netherlands which are still member states.

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