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>The EU solution meaningfully changes the offending company's behavior

How are those cookie consent popups working out?




Great, they meant better acting corporations have no click or single click (dismiss-able with simple add-ons to proactively affirm the user's position) ribbons to get get rid of unwanted cookies. Let's be realistic anyone who hates those banners and hasn't bothered to do the google search and 5 minute task to get rid of them permanently (either enabling or disabling consent) is not having their political opinion changed by them, they are using them as an excuse to buttress their position of government bad or corporations malicious.


It is a meaningful change, or you wouldn’t be talking about it.

Meaningful does not mean a solution.




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