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Comment by immibis | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, what of it? It helps protect my privacy rights online, though enforcement is severely lacking.

Hacker News intentionally doesn't comply with it, by the way - as a pure USA website which doesn't take payments, they didn't really have to, but they chose to make an ideology out of it anyway.

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My comment, which, upon reflection was poorly written, was supposed to imply "remember how the European Union pretended to care about privacy, and created GDPR? That same european union wants to do this"

GDPR is great for privacy. All these sites that track you have to tell you all the ways they track you and trick you into clicking "consent".

And it made the web experience way worse. Would have been much better to just take back the cookie popups in the browsers, and require each site to publish ToS in a standard format to the browser. I want to approve each data sink once, and each type of clause in ToSes once. They took the technically easy way out. Not very well thought out, but great for adding web dev jobs, of course.

Yes, the GDPR should have gone much further and just banned tracking. But we live in free-market capitalism (an oxymoron in the long run btw) so it was deemed unacceptable to take away people's ability to choose to give up their own rights.

Yes because the 11 chapter 99 article law that was passed really needs to be more complicated…

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