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Comment by aurareturn | Hacker News Reader

If EU is so good at promoting innovation and competition, why couldn’t they compete at all in hardware, software, and AI?

If they’re so good at dissuading gate keepers, then why is LVMH everywhere and so dominant in luxury goods? Why is it that every single glasses shop in every mall is owned by Luxottica no matter the brand.

The truth is that EU is not good at promoting competition. They’re good at preventing innovation. They’re good at protectionist policies.

How many more cookie prompts do people have to click because of idiotic EU laws?

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I recommend the article “Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39602417

Cookie prompts is the best example of bad faith compliance. Please inform yourself and don't spread this narritive further.

IMO if anything it's the opposite. EU could have made law to respect DNT header if they wanted privacy but they won't because it would hurt "their" companies. Instead they tried to be super vague and preferentially sue companies who they have qualms with and the companies which they could get money from.

My previous company hired a lawyer from EU for sorting out GDPR, and even according to him the law didn't prevented all things which hurts privacy like a normal person will assume.

I am once again posting the EU official site using cookie pop-ups https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en

>The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to: >(...) >gather analytics data (about user behaviour).

Well they do collect user data using third party services. A bit disappointing, but banners seem to be necessary in this case.

Quoting OP

> Cookie prompts is the best example of bad faith compliance

If cookie prompts are used by both by the official EU and GDPR sites then that was clearly the intent of the law.

You can’t argue with cookie prompt lovers. They love clicking on those useless buttons.

https://gdpr.eu is an interesting site to visit on the matter, surely they have the best and most compliant implementation.

https://i.imgur.com/Ftuv74P.png

> why couldn’t they compete at all in hardware,

Like Arm? Or raspberry pi? (Both existed pre-exit)

> software,

Too many companies to list.

> and AI?

Like Mistral?

> How many more cookie prompts do people have to click because of idiotic EU laws?

It's up to the companies. Every time you see a banner it means the company values selling your information more than pissing you off. We could have no banners right now.

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