[bitofhope]

>And we can thank EU for the extremely annoying cookie pop-up’s on every website. Every site has a slightly different UI and the options/button labels always vary. Declining is always a multi-step process with various checkboxes.

No we can't. We can think of scummy adtech companies who feel entitled to their business model.

The GDPR very specifically says that the option to decline tracking must be at least as easily accessible as the option to accept.

The only way the EU is to blame for the pop-ups is that the regulation hasn't been enforced strictly enough.

[ajsnigrutin]

Criminals will avoid laws, and lawmakers should write laws in a way that makes them hard to be avoided.

If they asked anyone with atleast a minimal technical knowledge, they'd get a lot better solutions.

[bitofhope]

In this case the problem with GDPR is not how it's written but how it's enforced (or rather, how little it's enforced). Most of the cookie popups that appear while browsing are already blatant violations of the law, but the violators get away with them because the relevant authorities are overwhelmed/underfunded/dysfunctional.

>If they asked anyone with atleast a minimal technical knowledge, they'd get a lot better solutions.

This sentence implies that: (1) Nobody with even minimal technical knowledge was consulted when writing GDPR. (2) The problem of websites tracking their users can be solved through technical means. (3) One or more of the solutions are so trivial anyone with minimal technical knowledge could come up with them.

I disagree with all of the above assertions.

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