Businesses: implement rampant dark patterns to trick people into accepting tracking and data collection
Businesses: flood the internet with inane, obnoxious and blatantly illegal cookie dialogs
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4ad: I blame the EU
(Hint: show me where GDPR says anything about cookies)
It's correct to blame the businesses for creating the banners but also unfair to treat the matter as if the businesses and the EU are on a level playing field. The EU makes laws - it has cheat codes to achieve what it wants.
It's like defensive driving. You may not be at fault if someone crashes into you but you may have had the power to prevent it.
So stop being superficial and read this 7-year old law. I wonder if you could point to me where it talks about cookie banners
Alternatively, the EU could change the laws. Or enforce the existing ones.
Funnily how "7 years of complaining" was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners (often in direct violation of GDPR).
> Or enforce the existing ones.
That's definitely the biggest criticism you can level at EU: they are too slow in enforcing this.
I think the tide is very slowly changing. First they started showing reject buttons https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come There's a report on the cookie banners in the works: https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-authorities-support-noybs... etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679596
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457469
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30982470
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529062
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381063
All of these links have comments against this sentiment.
This comment from one o the linked discussions sums it up well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529190
Regulation, literally: do not collect people's data without their consent if you don't require that data for services you provide. Applies in equal measure to websites, banks, grocery stores, shit processing plants and nuclear power stations.
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4ad: I still blame the EU, and it's a pointless regulation.
Edit: This comment really says it much better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567507
No, when politicians make things worse and absolutely don't solve any problem they promised they will solve then they should be held accountable, removed from positions of power, and replaced with competent people who write better regulation.
Edit to your edit: indeed, the EU is mostly about making people miserable while convincing them it's actually better for them.
No it shouldn't. But it should be criticism and not blaming it for what is 100% the responsibility of the business.
> he EU is mostly about making people miserable while convincing them it's actually better for them.
See, this is not criticism. This is emotionally-charged whining and demagoguery
Of course they don't.
Most criminal gangs need to steal/rob/etc to survive too.