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by kergonath 1285 days ago
> If the EU just wants to fully outright ban advertising

Come on, don’t be obtuse. The problem is not advertising, the problem is tracking and using user data without consent. The fact that they do that for advertising is irrelevant. They would have the same issue if they were doing it for any other reason.

> set a standard and stick to it

That’s what they did. It’s called the GDPR. One can argue that enforcement was insufficient, but the standard has not changed.