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Good. As Elon says, the only thing the EU does export is regulation. Same geniuses that make us click 5 cookie pop-ups every webpage
by zeptonix 1y ago
Good. As Elon says, the only thing the EU does export is regulation. Same geniuses that make us click 5 cookie pop-ups every webpage
- cenamus 1y agoThey didn't give us that. Mostly non-compliant websites gave us that.
- spongebobstoes 1y agothat's deflecting responsibility. it's important to care about the actual effects of decisions, not hide behind the best case scenario. especially for governments. in this case, it is clear that the EU policy resulted in cookie banners
- dmix 1y agoThe the entire ad industry moved to fingerprinting, mobile ad kits, and 3rd party authentication login systems so it made zero difference even if they did comply. Google and Meta aren't worried about cookies when they have JS on every single website but it burdens every website user.
- mpeg 1y agoThis is not correct, the regulation has nothing to do with cookies as the storage method, and everything to do with what kind of data is being collected and used to track people. Meta is hardly at blame here, it is the site owners that choose to add meta tracking code to their site and therefore have to disclose it and opt-in the user via "cookie banners"
- myaccountonhn 1y agoThis thread is people going "EU made me either choose to tell you that I spy on you or stop spying on you, now I need to tell everyone I spy on them, fucking EU".
- saubeidl 1y agoTrump literally started a trade war because the EU exports more to the US than vice versa.
- tim333 1y agoHe also did the war thing on the UK which imports more from the US than it exports. He just likes trade wars I think.
- t0mas88 1y agoElon is an idiot. If he disagrees with EU values so much, he should just stay out of the EU market. It's a free world, nobody forced him to sell cars in the EU.
- McAlpine5892 1y agoPeople complain more about cookie banners than they do the actual invasive tracking by those cookies. Those banners suck and I wouldn't mind if the EU rolled back that law and tried another approach. At the same time, it's fairly easy to add an extension to your browser that hides them. Legislation won't always work. It's complex and human behavior is somewhat unpredictable. We've let tech run rampant up to this point - it's going to take some time to figure out how to best control them. Throwing up our hands because it's hard to protect consumers from power multi-national corporations is a pretty silly position imo.
- seydor 1y ago> than they do the actual invasive tracking by those cookies. maybe people have rationally compared the harm done by those two
- Barrin92 1y agocan you expand on what sort of rationality would lead a person to consider an at worst annoying pop-up to be more dangerous than data exfiltration to companies and governments that are already acting in adversarial ways? The US government is already using people's social media profiles against them, under the Cloud act any US company can be compelled to hand data over to the government, as Microsoft just testified in France. That's less dangerous than an info pop up? Of course it has nothing to do with rationality. They're mad at the first thing they see, akin to the smoker who blames the regulators when he has to look at a picture of a rotten lung on a pack of cigarettes