[gampleman]

I'm surprised to not see too much discussion about GDPR here.

But the question I have is under what legal basis do companies use the tracking identifiers? Surely the only legal basis available to them is consent? So Apple has kindly made the consent collection infrastructure part of iOS (and therefore standardised and therefore user friendly).

So are the complaints about Apple forcing them to obey the law? That seems pretty strange to me.

[Nextgrid]

The whole ATT thing merely forces companies to do what they were supposed to do 3 years ago when the GDPR came into effect, and maybe even earlier if you consider the ePrivacy Directive ("Cookie law").

The regulators should use any company's complaints about the change as evidence of past GDPR breaches, but then again the reason ATT was required and companies complain is that the regulators are so incompetent that the regulation is routinely broken in total impunity even 3 years down the line.

[stjohnswarts]

I just don't think that there are that many Europeans on HN percentage wise.

[Nextgrid]

I think there's a lot of people on HN that profit from breaching the GDPR, so it's unlikely to have a good reputation here