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Europe Is in Danger of Regulating Its Tech Market Out of Existence (archive.ph)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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This is what happens when you rely on American tech companies. Apple is pulling shit with Europe, the home of "civilisation", that feels like it's straight out of a stupid reality show over regulations regarding sideloading and privacy. And clowns like this will regurgigate the dumbest and the most worn-out libertarian shit in first tier media outlets.

Tbh I don't get the point behind GDPR. Is it genuinely meant to ensure privacy to some extent or is it just some form of protectionism against American tech companies?

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

GDPR is pretty solid if you ask me and basically makes it illegal to share your customers' data with third parties without explicit permission. The result of that is a lot of US websites refuse to serve European countries because they are all about selling data.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What confuses me is that the cookie permission banners/modals are some real asshole shits. "Reject all" option is behind 2 or 3 clicks whereas the "accept all' option is the first thing you see. I wish they had made patterns like those illegal as well.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 10 points 3 months ago

They are illegal, just not enforced properly

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's actually from a completely different set of legislation that came in earlier regarding cookies in general. Although it does overlap a bit.

Either way, European websites have to have a reject all button clearly displayed.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

German democratic peoples Republic???