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I'm so glad the GDPR never took hold in the US. Little Karens getting companies fined millions of dollars over what amounts to nothing.

You can always not use their service. Plenty of alternatives out there.

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Norway has in practice only two big box electronics chains. Not always "pleny of alternatives out there"

All this regulatory overhead won't help competition.

Dropping these regulations won't help the competition either.

I for one was signed up for Elkjøp kundeklubb membership unbeknownst to me. It happened when I was picking up a water cooker. Seller asked if I would like an electronic receipt and asked me for my email. That was in Elkjøp at Solsiden in Trondheim.

The more annoying is that I gave him my regular email address and not a generated alias that I always give to companies.

Was super pissed when spam started landing on my main address.

So no, not plenty alternatives here.

If I need to buy something at El Giganten (Danish version) I speak English when paying, and tell them I'm a tourist and don't want to give them a phone number or email. They can print a paper receipt.

But I only buy from there if it's the only option. (Other than Amazon, which I refuse to use at all.)

How depressingly unamerican.

It's really pathetic, isn't it? These guys hate their fellow Americans so much that they think it's better to allow companies to abuse people instead of stepping in to protect them.

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