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I was just vacationing in the UK last week and ran into this ridiculous thing trying to browse (entirely non-pornographic, fwiw) Reddit threads. Which I opted not to read rather than going through the hassle and privacy breach.

Also got to experience the full force of the cookie law, which I hadn't realized I was only seeing a fraction of here in Canada.

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Why not just get a cheap VPN for traveling or set up tailscale to your home router?

Because it was only a few days. If I'd been there longer I would have.

Cheap VPNs are only a temporary solution. I doubt that the EU and the UK will abstain from following China's and Russia's example in slowly locking down means of anonymization / obfuscation.

I'm kinda okay with the internet dying. I feel like it peaked in the early 2010s anyways.

The cookie law is not in UK but in EU, no?

Much of it comes from GDPR law which was passed prior to brexit. After brexit, the UK kept most of the regulation under the "UK GDPR", meaning it does apply in the UK as well.

Ah. I didn't know there is UK GDPR and UK cookie law! (cookie law is not related to GDPR? or is? I donno)

What was the point of brexit if you keep the annoying parts of EU? But, whatever.

> What was the point of brexit if you keep the annoying parts of EU?

Indeed, however the UK was part of the EU for 50 years. All the laws created in that time cannot immediately be replaced quickly or easily, and so most were carried over 'temporarily'

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