You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
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You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
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Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#2Cookie banners are already obsolete in the age of AI. Who is wasting time defending it? People don't even care to hate GDPR these days, it's an anacrhonistic regulation from a different era that some EUrocrats like to boast about
Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#3I hate the banners, and I am a major privacy advocate.
The web has gotten so much uglier as a result of GDPR.
Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#4Cookie banners are already obsolete in the age of AI. Who is wasting time defending it? People don't even care to hate GDPR these days, it's an anacrhonistic regulation from a different era that some EUrocrats like to boast about
The point of the article is not that banners are good; it’s that they would not be needed at all if websites didn’t share all the possible data about their users with hundreds of vendors.
Fun fact: the OP blog doesn’t display a GPDR banner.
Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#5GDPR has one single goal - to allow aggregated presumably anonymous data markets. Period. Everything else surrounding it is diversion in a plain sight.
Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#6Note that GDPR did not mandate the cookie banners we see everywhere today. Those are a form of malicious compliance. Their goal is not to conform to regulation but to undermine the regulation itself in the eyes of the public.
Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#7I hate the banners, and I am a major privacy advocate. The web has gotten so much uglier as a result of GDPR.
The cookie banner isn't actually specified in gdpr, it was just how everyone else tried to build the solution to the problem at the last minute.
I remember thinking "ok once this hits an actual web spec, we should see this built into browsers, and sent as headers or something"
Nope
Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#8Cookie banners are already obsolete in the age of AI. Who is wasting time defending it? People don't even care to hate GDPR these days, it's an anacrhonistic regulation from a different era that some EUrocrats like to boast about
> Who is wasting time defending it?
I do! It’s one of my favorite regulation ever. I find it very well researched and designed, in a world where it often feels we cannot change the status quo it’s really impressive that a community of countries as messy as the EU has been able to design, pass, and actually implemented such a complex and citizen-centered set of rules
Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#9US companies like Meta or Google __LOVE__ GDPR. It is quagmire of complicated rules, and small startups will get burried under this quick sand. Large corporations can maintain departments of lawyers, and navigate this legal minefield. Small fines are cost of doing business, bribe that goverment would not force monopolies to spkit!
Try to do marketing ad campaign as small eshop owner in EU!
Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
#10Note that GDPR did not mandate the cookie banners we see everywhere today. Those are a form of malicious compliance. Their goal is not to conform to regulation but to undermine the regulation itself in the eyes of the public.
The cookie banners come from the earlier ePrivacy Directive, and while it was possible to comply by not storing cookies at all, if you want to store data on the user's browser you do need to get their consent, hence the cookie banner.