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This is the industry standard for advertising. Even way before GDRP!

Remember when Verizon was caught "super cookie"ing all their subscribers http requests?

What did verizon do? moved the super cookie shenanigans under their subsidiary AOL. Then when AOL got a slap on the wrist too, what verizon did? bought Yahoo and moved the shenanigans there. ...When those tactics where not technically possible anymore it sold all ad subsidiaries for the purchase price.

I call that «Regulatory Condoms». It works fine for enforcement that gives warnings before fines.

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Heh nice term! Being respectful to my colleagues, I call this "privacy theater", borrowing from the "security theater".

Quit the puritanism. it's less disrespectful than insert cookies on your clients http requests tho.

Is the word “condom” considered disrespectful?

I can understand terms that are discriminatory in nature or historically. But an anti-conception piece of rubber?

I don't think it's disrespectful, but it touches on sex, so I'd probably feel awkward using it in a work meeting?

My immediate thought was having to explain it, haha. Fuuny term but no thanks!

I could see someone perceiving the usage of the word condom in this context as negatively connotated. Its not the word condom that is wrong in itself, its more to do with devaluing a condom and the usage of such.

See, to make a more practical example, if one has sex and uses a condom its not nice to think of it like a subsidiary company that is used to keep off the results of GDPR violations on your behalves. The usage of condoms should IMHO be viewed in a more positive light.

edit: forgot an "of"

It's not the condom that is being perceived negatively, it's the diseases that are.

Condoms, in this usage case are protecting, how can that be negative?

In terms of word shiftage, people literally misuse the word genocide, so how can one be concerned with this positive use of condom?

i think it's the implication that the ISP is fking the consumers.

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