You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It • Hacker News Board

Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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Post by happymellon » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

SR2Z wrote: post #179

happymellon wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Billions? You mean millions. As in 12 million subscribers. Which includes people who have it as a backup. Thats a lot of taxes for a few cities worth of people. Especially since Americans already paid for fibre to be laid to everyone in to US' home until the fund was embezzled.

It also includes Ukrainian drone operators, for whom this service is the difference between life and death. Not much tax money was spent on it either.

They've had $100 million in government subsidies.

And then all the government contracts.

Their entire business plan is based off taxes.

He is the biggest leach on state benefits.

> Not much tax money was spent on it either.

A lot of tax money has been given to him.

Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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Post by WA » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 8:37 PM UTC

foldr wrote: post #56

whatsThisBtn4 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made a physical product and upon learning European regulations, I quickly decided I was going to spend 0 time designing it for Europe. If I made millions, sure, pay someone to figure it out. But I was not going to waste design time early on. I can't imagine how much this affects small business in Europe.

These are just general barriers to international trade, though. Small manufacturers in Europe may likewise decide not to design for US regulations.

Relative of mine is Swiss. They produce cookies for the US market. Every few years, an FDA-adjacent regulator comes to Switzerland, inspects the place in person, expects dinner, entertainment and whatnot, gives his signature and off he goes. My relative says that no other country they export to overseas is this far-reaching (not to say over-reaching) regulatory-wise.

Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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Post by WA » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 8:42 PM UTC

DarmokTanagra wrote: post #53

Symbiote wrote: post #44

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My employer's site has no banners, since we decided not to use any tracking. We measure our success based on enquiries, orders and so on, not the number of hits to the website.

so you don't track your bounce rate or effectiveness of your advertising?

You can track bounce rate and ad spend in a GDPR-compliant way. What wouldn't work is retargeting individual users via tracking pixels without their consent.

Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

"The banner is deliberate vandalism, a dark pattern engineered to exhaust you before you can learn anything about the surveillance apparatus humming behind the "OK.""

Create a problem, the "dark pattern", and then offer a "solution"

The source for the "solution" is also the source of the original problem

This is one of the various tactics in the SillyCon Valley playbook

Use the "solution" or else suffer the problem

Consent immediately or suffer the cookie banner

Lowbrow, mafia-style persuasion but with cowardly annoyance in place of direct confrontation

I never see any cookie banners when there is no Javascript interpreter. No cookies get through the local forward proxy anyway. But that's not SillyCon Valley's "solution" to the annoyance, it's mine

Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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Post by larodi » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 11:39 AM UTC

9dev wrote: post #31

larodi wrote: post #5

GDPR has one single goal - to allow aggregated presumably anonymous data markets. Period. Everything else surrounding it is diversion in a plain sight.

Sure buddy. And it's all orchestrated by the Rothschilds, right?

no tis not, brov. but then it still is there to enable a market, not protect peoples... because you know what - this market predates GDPR and will outlive it for sure. you can list another second-order effects, there are perhaps some.

the primary goal of anonymizing users, pushed down the throat of otherwise very oblivious service providers (such as your website selling dick enlargement machinery), is just not never going to work.

on the other hand, provider such as telecoms are now, being GDPR-compliant, absolutely in their right to sell the aggregated data. so are rail services, and bus, and everything that touches IDs and alike. even your gov. cheers.

Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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Post by Anamon » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:44 PM UTC

unsupp0rted wrote: post #166

torlok wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody's forcing you to buy products in plastic bottles. It would actually be better if you didn't. "Technology and progress" are so far producing mountains of trash and pollution that you're privileged to not have to see, unlike those children in Africa, and other impoverished places where your garbage washes up. You're proud of winning the lottery. Have some self-awareness.

I’m proud of living in a world of comfort that every generation before me has suffered through hell to accomplish. The solution to children in Africa suffering isn’t me living worse or even me beating myself up for “my privilege”.

> The solution to children in Africa suffering isn’t me living worse

It may very much be, to be honest. The causalities aren't that mysterious.

Re: You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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Post by Anamon » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

sajithdilshan wrote: post #49

I worked in a small startup in Berlin and I remember we used to have a person dedicated to handle GDPR stuff. She had to go to Berlin data authority periodically and report status. I was really surprised given how small the company was, why we needed a dedicated person to handle all the bureaucracy. Apparently it was the law. Also with the new package law in EU. I believe all these laws are how EU creates employment…

That's not true. The Data Protection Officer doesn't need to be a dedicated person, an employee can simply be given that role in addition to their regular roles. There are rules to prevent a conflict of interest. But I don't think many small corporations have a dedicated DPO.