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stein1946

> Don't give your "smart" TV internet access. It's that simple.

No it's not.

Am I supposed to counter every action taken by a conglomerate against me every time?

Do all the consumers have to align to this as well?

a TV must be a TV, in the same sense that orange juice must be made from oranges.

Looking forward to EU reining in on them.

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It's goddamn hilarious when during setup a device/software asks me if I live in the EU.

Makes me want to Spotify Beethoven.

Yes all hail the EU.

Soon we'll have a popup before every individual show on Netflix asking us if we accept the cookies before we watch, all in the name of consumer protection

Cookie pops are malicious compliance to regulations that legitimately protect consumers. You’ve cherry picked one bad side effect to throw out all the ways the EU is way ahead of anyone else in protecting consumers, most of which you don’t even notice because it’s hard to notice harm that did not happen.

That's fair. I live in the EU and I love it here, and I'm glad for those protections every day. Except the damn cookie popup.

I don't agree they're malicious compliance though. I think it's just regular compliance.

Regular compliance would be be to stop tracking users.

A ton of websites don’t even track users but have the cookie popup because they think that’s what you’re supposed to do.

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