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1. thih9 · 1789929279 · focus · HN ↗

   I am once again happy that the EU is fighting practices like these via legislation.

   Some outcomes can be annoying, but the net result is still positive, for the consumers and their data privacy at least.

   1. jampekka · 1789937909 · focus · HN ↗

      > I am once again happy that the EU is fighting practices like these via legislation.

      As long as you manage to navigate all the dark patterns and not accidentally give your "informed consent".

      1. dspillett · 1789938690 · focus · HN ↗

         Malicious compliance (or as it more usually is malicious noncompliance that has not been sufficiently punished so the slimy buggers feel free to continue) is something you should blame the stalkers of adtech for, more than the EU. The legislators could perhaps have made the definitions less wavy, and been harder with enforcement, but that doesn't make it all their fault.

         1. jampekka · 1789939776 · focus · HN ↗

            These problems were quite widely foreseen during the legislative process, and partly had already been exhibited by the earlier ePrivacy directive. I don't know whether it matters who's to blame, but my trust in EU being very effective in these fights in the future either is not very high.

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