To be honest I’m just praying your regulators make laws so draconian that it ripples over here and improves things indirectly. That seems to be all we can hope for anymore. 😔
Tbf the law doesn’t even mention cookie banners. The industry has just chosen, feely, that this is the way that they want to inform and collect consent. There’s nothing forcing them into doing so in such an intrusive way.
Yeah, ideally all of those would be opt-in and hidden is settings somewhere. But no, they wanted it to be opt-out so clueless people will just click through whatever the default is.
Forced arbitration is not applicable in the EU. ToS in general have a “nobody reads them” attitude, though that’s not very relevant to this discussion.
EU citizens:
But seriously, it’s god damn shitty behaviour through and through. I’m sorry, Americans.
To be honest I’m just praying your regulators make laws so draconian that it ripples over here and improves things indirectly. That seems to be all we can hope for anymore. 😔
Haha well at least we gave the world some cookie banners.
Yeah, and they’re incredibly annoying… But maybe it’s for the best.
Tbf the law doesn’t even mention cookie banners. The industry has just chosen, feely, that this is the way that they want to inform and collect consent. There’s nothing forcing them into doing so in such an intrusive way.
Yeah, ideally all of those would be opt-in and hidden is settings somewhere. But no, they wanted it to be opt-out so clueless people will just click through whatever the default is.
What’s that supposed to mean?
Forced arbitration is not applicable in the EU. ToS in general have a “nobody reads them” attitude, though that’s not very relevant to this discussion.
No, what does the image mean?
Relaxing while dreaming about relaxing.