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Comment by vincnetas | Hacker News Reader

... other EU consumer-protection regulation ...

like unified charging cable, free EU roaming or intercountry bank payments that are instant and almost free, air travel protections?

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- efficient vaccuums - efficient bulbs - no roaming costs if somebody leaves a message on your voicemail - insurance companies and banks can't charge you as they see fit - toxic free food - toxic free meat - farming without killing the rest of the living things - Best of all: China and USA can't dictate the rules everytime

Like the experience of opening any website for the last decade and being greeted with a cookie popup is more the direction the parent comment was intending I'm assuming.

Some regulations are good, some are bad, all have second and third order effects that need to be weighed against benefits.

and you comfortably ignore all the adds that get in your face when opening any news or commerce site. you would not need these popups with agree and list of third party data aggregators if you were not selling all that visitor information to anyone. alas eu requires you to notify visitors about it. its not like eu says "you must show annoying popups" its page authors choose to do so to be able to sell the data. even knowing that this will annoy the visitors. and then blame EU

> if you were not selling all that visitor information to anyone

Do you understand how rare it is for a company to actually sell its user data?

Visitor data. And i think these companies them selves do not fully understand what visitor data they pass on just to get that ad revenue.

Put this JS on your page, we'll give you some money.

Unified charging cable: what if the standard had been set much earlier? For example, in 2008? We'd all be on Micro-USB, far inferior to USB-C. Right now USB-C feels great, but do you really think this is the end-all, be-all? I think the cost of this mandatory standardization will become apparent a few years from now.

do you think that regulations can not be updated to improove?

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