throwaway_sb666

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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Germany is in a very tough spot energy-wise and is the most impacted by the Russian sanctions. A lot of house heating is gas and that isn't something you can change in 6 month. So in the very short term they probably need coal to repla
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
> my main concern was actually running strange 3rd party fingerprinting / zombie-tracker / god-knows-what Exactly - i briefly looked into https://www.ethicalads.io/ but mostly IT related ads it seems. > Face
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Ok fair enough. What I meant to say was that pressure to enforce laws only happen if there is public pressure to see the law implemented, and when the concepts are too abstract/intangible, the public disengages more easily from the iss
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Terve! Not surprised to see Finland slightly ahead of the curve. I think the default is that most people, professionals included, don't understand the law and throw in the banner-spam to be on the safe side or because of outdated check
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Honestly I think the GDPR/cookie consent providers should be held equally liable as the website owner for the collective violations facilitated by their product. I think being able to go after the enablers and profiteers would make enf
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
A better analogy was if you were forced to use the toilet every time you entered a store you haven't been to previously... Just why in the world would I need to take part in such a wasteful charade.
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
More charitably and historically accurate, it's the result of hardcore political negotiations with the originally proposed legislation watered down due to pressure from politicians and governments influenced by lobbyists. But yeah, th
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Hot take: Only way to undo past damage is to now make the cookie/consent banner illegal.
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ lol ;-) https://european-union.europa.eu/ https://www.sundhed.dk/ https://www.securite-sociale.fr/ 4 out of 4 in my case. May I ask which on
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
> The most common use of “tracking” cookies is just to be able to count unique views for your site, which I think is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do. Sure, and I don't remember if this is currently legal without need to n
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
> Enforcement was partially privatized, and the free market, as it often does, found a better and more efficient way of enforcing the law than the government could dream of. I'm not a fan of this. You're replacing one kind of d
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
> I was just asserting out that a law that banned spyware-based advertising would harm the current website ecomomy which is largely based around spyware. I think that largely, the website economy is based around advertising. I honestly d
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
> The problem is continuous lack of enforcement Yeah, but it's hard to enforce a law at scale when the difference between legal and illegal behavior is not obvious to a layperson. The law is too technical. It also has shouldn't
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
I agree that a cookie banner is pointless. But they are even on government websites, so obviously something has gone terribly wrong along they way (hint: lobbyism). My thinking goes like this: 1. The law explicitly talks of requesting conse
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Check my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30755527
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Yeah like instead of having them on the street, they could have a shop and you could tax them a lot and make sure people know what they are getting into. Same with sharing personal data - maybe not a bad parallel :)
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Appreciate the sentiment. Policy changes will probably always hurt somebody. The expectation is the the economy will realign around new goals. In this case it's even simpler since a software company would like be able to develop a new
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
If the law is right, but not possible to enforce, some fixing may be needed
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Disagree. Let it burn, it's the only way. (change my mind?) This made me think of the Ukraine war, and how the sanctions may turn out to be a bigger help to climate crisis than any political entity could muster on the basis of the impe
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
Those that don't require opt-out according to the law. Too lazy to look up the legal definition right now. Edit: by law I mean the GDPR. Edit2: Get rid of the "cookie banner law" entirely, actually make it illegal, but requir
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by throwaway_sb666 4y ago
> Did we consider that if everyone is breaking the law, the law itself might need a rework? Agreed - IMO, make cookie banners illegal and make 'minimum cookies' the default. Done?
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by throwaway_sb666 5y ago
His channel is clearly anti-CCP. He's married to a Chinese woman, and I believe genuinely loves China.
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by throwaway_sb666 5y ago
Having lived in Beijing and Shenzhen for almost 7 years, I find that where I have first hand experience his reporting is pretty accurate. Would you mind to elaborate why you consider it bottom of the gutter grifting? Genuinely curious to he