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Comment by marbletiles | Hacker News Reader

Site has a cookie permission box where “Deny” takes you to Wikipedia, which is both non compliant and pointless

Sounds like one of those "Get me outta here" type links. If you don't want to comply with the cookie rules, you don't get to see the site. Doesn't seem so pointless to me

Are they targeting EU citizens or doing business in the EU? If not why would the bother trying to be “compliant”

On the other hand why do they want to steal your personal data?

Regardless of whether they mean to, if it's shown in the EU they're obliged to follow the rules. You can't just decide they don't apply to you. Some sites just plain don't show to EU customers or present a very paired down set of pages for this reason.

That’s wrong. You are under no obligation to work out eu customers - you can’t. If an EU citizen buys a bagel while in NY that doesn’t make the bagel shop under any obligation to comply with the gdpr. Their website can steal all the data it wants to.

If the shop specifically targets eu customers that’s different. If the shop offered bagel drivers to France for example.

Either way the GDPR basically says “don’t steal people’s data”. Ther is no reason to have cookie banners unless you want to take personal data, and the easy solution to that is to not take personal data.

That’s my thought: if you’re not doing it to be compliant, why do it at all? Seems pointless.

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