As an American we tend to (especially lately) make our politics into everyone's problem so feel free to comment on our politics as much as you like until further notice.
As an American we tend to (especially lately) make our politics into everyone's problem so feel free to comment on our politics as much as you like until further notice.
So Europeans don't do this ? The EU is constantly trying to regulate US companies. Every time I click on a stupid cookie notice I fondly think of the EU .
> The EU is constantly trying to regulate US companies
US companies that operate in the EU market, handle EU citizens data. Obviously the EU regulations cover them. Do you think European companies don’t have to follow US regulations when offering their services in the US?
Every time I click a stupid cookie notice I wonder why the company serving it up chose to make me go through that rather than not track me.
We need more of this take. They literally could just stop tracking you and monetizing the data. The finger of blame should point straight at the folks doing the bad thing, not the rules that make them let you know they are doing the bad thing.
As much as I hate the cookie banner, it is this requirement that forced companies to disclose the massive amounts of tracking they are using when anyone visits their site.
> The EU is constantly trying to regulate US companies.
What, you mean if they want to do business in the EU, sell their products in the EU and process the data of EU citizens?
> Every time I click on a stupid cookie notice I fondly think of the EU.
That’s just scumbag malpractice on purpose.
Number one, such tracking consent should have been a web standard and set in the browser itself (like Do Not Track), not stupid per-site banners that are designed to get you to accept everything just to make them fuck off. We shouldn’t even need extensions etc. to get rid of them, it’s like the problem was solved at the wrong level and in the worst way possible.
Secondly, everyone responsible for the state of those banners should have been fined greatly. I only say fined because claiming that some people should be in jail over coercing millions of people to give up their data to trackers would apparently be unreasonable.
europeans certainly did make their politics everyone else's problem for centuries (we're talking every other continent at this point), but certainly the cookie banner is not even comparable, right?
The whataboutism is strong! I said a thing about American politics affecting many people beyond our borders, giving my blessing to an eu commenter to go ahead and comment on our politics.
Did that seem like I said something about EU politics? Did my support of their comments make you feel attacked or unfairly treated? Where is this coming from?
Cookie nonsense aside, the EU is mandating that AI companies watermark their output.
I'm curious if that (noticably) diminishes the quality of the output.
The stupid cookie notice is entirely the fault of the site you are visiting. The EU just made the site show you how it's fucking you.
There's a cookie banner on https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en and https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng
That site is run by the EU, so those particular banners are the fault of the EU, yes. Most of the other ones you see are not, though.
If the EU is unable to separate itself from pages of analytics and tracking cookies and fifteen third party providers (YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and so on), then "most of the other ones you see" are likewise compelled to have the cookie banner.
Alternatively, if you need a cookie banner for every bit of analytics...
Yep, your cookie consent cookie is browser session and every page that has a cookie consent banner that sets a cookie so that you won't see it is required to have a cookie consent banner to inform you that you have a cookie tracking your cookie consent.Look, governments are big, really big. The department responsible for the website has absolutely nothing to do with the cookie banner law.
My website doesn't have a banner because I don't track you. That's how easy it is to not have a cookie banner.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng is the link for the GPDR. There's a cookie banner there describing how their analytics cookies will track you for 13 months, 6 months, and 365 days... along with that they may display content from "external providers, such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter".
Is this supposed to refute the comment you are replying to saying they don't track, or is it something else I don't understand? Is it just like a dunk on an eu site that tracks you?
If it's "even this eu site chooses to track you, therefore it's unreasonable for anyone to not track you" that's a weird point to make in reply to a comment explicitly showing a counter example.