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If you always clear browsing data on exit, then what difference does having a reject all button make?
If you have a /etc/hosts file that redirects 10000 tracker domains to 0.0.0.0 then you don’t even need to clear any browsing data. Plus, you don’t see ads anymore without any browser plugins.
This article is excessively negative on the effectiveness of the law. I would say the biggest issue is inconsistent enforcement by DPAs. The other problems are overstated. Believe me, as someone who sees things from the inside of european companies, compliance is still taken very seriously.
I hear you. These so-called "privacy activists" seem to have no clue how much European corporations are spending on data management, privacy controls, legal due diligence and finally serving the customers' GDPR requests. The last one is the publicly visible part, but it really is just the tip of an iceberg in investment on compliance. This is made even more frustrating by that at least I find GDPR to be not very prec…
There are signs that it's getting better. I started seeing cookie dialogs with a Reject all button. Sometimes it's a big one, sometimes it's almost white on white, but it's there. Anyway the vast majority of those dialogs is still misleading. The usual We care about your privacy, accept all, settings thing.
This seems to be a very common misconception, but the cookie consent dialogues are not part of GDPR.
Cookie compliance
To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:
Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.
Provide accurate and specific information about the data each cookie tracks and its purpose in plain language before consent is received.
Document and store consent received from users.
Allow users to access your service even if they refuse to allow the use of certain cookies
Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.
The most hilarious thing is cookies!
For example, cookies exist, and they work a certain way... and despite not liking how they work.. they are here, and not going away, and imposing some kind of contract-law of cookies being accepted or rejected totally ignores that the user has, and always had, the ability to reject cookies at the browser level, unilaterally or with policies, without any contract laws.
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Just want to point out that this not an issue only between European countries but also a problem e.g. inside Germany. [1]: a major information breach at a car rental company went with literary no consequences, while other cases get fined so high that they can easily fight decisions in court. I understand people if they complain about GDPR because it produces paperwork but in the end nobody cares about it. A central E…
> also a problem e.g. inside Germany. [1]: a major information breach at a car rental company went with literary no consequences, while other cases get fined so high that they can easily fight decisions in court This is the problem of German regulators being too cozy with incumbents. (Also see: Wirecard.) It's related, in that if you're one of the incumbents a regulator is cozy with, you're going to fight to switch f…
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/20/facebook-transfers-impact-...
https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-burns-taxpayer-money-over-delay...
(DPC = the official Irish body who should be responsible for enforcing GDPR… in bed with Facebook instead. Somewhere between shameful and criminal.)
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https://www.adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/tapad-is-shutting...
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The purpose of GDPR is to help abusers legitimise the data they collect. Before GDPR it was a grey area, because users didn't explicitly consent to anything - GDPR fixes that. Ubiquitous pop ups where you agree for your data to be collected and processed, trained users to consent to anything that comes their way and corporations now have legal basis to use, process and sell that data. It was quite clever - make peopl…
The GDPR has strict regulations on what counts as valid data processing consent. 90% of the consent popups you see out there do not fit that criteria and any "consent" obtained via them doesn't count.
I have had a total of 66 data requests in 4 years. I handle data requests and follow the laws, but I also understand the EU/UK has zero grounds to enforce anything against my business if I were to flat out reject all requests.
They can't fine me, I don't have a physical or business presence in Europe, though I do have European customers.
The only reason I handle requests is to protect my customers, not myself.
GDPR broke one of my websites that had tens of thousands of happy users. Users loved it and expressed their delight that the website exists on a daily basis. But when I tried to monetize it without ads and via Patreon instead, nobody paid. Nobody. Recently, Google said they don't think my cookie banner is GDPR conform. But gave no info why and how I could fix it. And turned off Adsense. So I finally took the plunge a…
GDPR aside, I had similar shock after getting a few million users for a viral language game, but finding that basically nobody was willing to sponsor it on Patreon, even to a level to cover the basic hosting costs. It was a little hard to process at the time.
I play Wordle most days. I do enjoy it. The amount I'd pay for it is $0, because there are a thousand other free options that would entertain me just as much. Maybe not even word games. Maybe just Microsoft Solitaire. Apple's Texas Hold 'Em. Minesweeper. Nokia Snake Game. Whatever. Despite playing Wordle so much, if you told me I had to pay $1/month for it or else it'd disappear completely, I wouldn't do it. Its competition includes free stuff like watching the clouds go by, or flicking little paper wads at the trash can.
Cookie banner has ruined the whole web. - Does not protect people (99% are just fake. If you reject cookies you keep get them) - Cost money to company (so cost to customers). A simpler browser extension where you manage your preference once far all (default) with the possibility to personilize x site (think like you do for camera permission) would have solved the problem in a real way and without all the hussle.
You can't necessarily raise prices just because your costs go up.