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Please no more internet laws from the EU. At least that 250 year old document doesn't require us to click a cookie popup on every site visit.


The cookie popups are caused by lazy companies who choose not to comply with the law. It's not caused by the EU.


No, it’s absolutely caused by the EU. What you’re seeing, as many have seen in the past, is idealistic laws meeting reality


Lazy companies wouldn’t bother putting a pop up.


GDPR isn’t the only set of data privacy laws in the world.

On top of that, many companies are doing a fantastic job at procuring PII through these consent notices. Some of them are downright predatory and give hundreds of companies around the world a mandate to process, store, enrich and sell your private information, including but not limited to things you buy anywhere offline or online, your web history, your location history, your health records, all your social media posts, all your instant messages, everything you’ve ever typed on any of your phones or other mobile devices (except laptops — maybe), and of course any leaked information about you that may be gathered or bought online.

All with a single click, in effect permanently.




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