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I've just realised people are upset because I called the EU regulations dumb. I want to clarify, they are an excellent idea, I truly mean it, but I think it should be OPT IN. Its more important for me to have access to cool tech then it is to have privacy, atm , in this stage of my life. I guess my problem is the implementation.

Cookie popups on every website, its completely idiotic. Ofcourse I end up wasting hours of my life clicking on them randomly. There should just be an OPT IN for the cookie popup, or OPT OUT. Either on a EU portal or something.

Infact I find it fascinating noone is coming up with a better implementation of privacy concerns in the EU. This whole US not releaseing software incase they get sued, and thinking its fine for the whole EU population to go around clicking popups every 2 seconds is a total failure that needs to be fixed.

Again the idea is good, but the implementation needs to be fixed.



Optional does not change the behaviour of the bad actors. Private corporations already run rings around governments, on tax and regulations.

If you really have to experience Musk's chat bot on day one just use a VPN?


alright


>Cookie popups on every website, its completely idiotic.

That's not because of the EU, that's because the website owner try to annoy you to blame the EU.

If they stop tracking no pop up is needed.

>Its more important for me to have access to cool tech

It's hardly possible to only give your own data without exposing third parties who may be not to keen of sharing their data.

FB already showed that. I bet WhatsApp already has my phone number without my consent because some relative of mine uploaded his contacts.




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