[lm28469]

You should try working in an international company, on the Europe side, and communicate with the US side.

You'll quickly learn that what the EU does is very very very good for privacy, I have contacts in a major company and they were shocked at how the US branch operates, they have absolutely no sense of privacy, no anonymisation, no limitation on what is stored or tracked, no consent, &c. they just scrape and store as much as they can for "future use"

[joenot443]

There are lots of people, myself included, who are aware of how much data big tech has already cultivated on us and don’t give a damn if at this point BBC or Mike’s Bike Blog get in on the action too. Really we just wanted to read our article and not be interrupted, so we can go back to what matters more: anything not on the computer.

I’ve never felt protected or assisted by the cookie banners, just annoyed and inconvenienced.

[lm28469]

Well good things laws aren't based on your feelings. I also hate putting my seatbelt on and I'd like yo enjoy real life instead of spending so much time clicking the damn belt

With the 0.1s it takes to click on a banner I'm sure you're fine. Most people probably visit less than 50 different websites per month, so at most that would be 50s per months, minus the banners you already clicked on, for which your browser already saved your choice (Unless you use incognito, but why would you do that, it's only for people who have something to hide right ? regular people just accept all data collection right ?)

[danielbln]

Strong data privacy is good. Dumb side effects that serve no one are not. Cookie banners, or California's "is known to cause cancer" on virtually _everything_ serve no purpose and should be re-designed.

[qsdf38100]

The EU law doesn’t say you must have banners. If your site doesn’t collect information on users, it doesn’t need a banner.

Also the banner, if there is one, must have a 1-Click "reject all" button.

Most sites fail to fully comply, because they want to force (annoy) users into clicking on "leave me alone I don’t care" button to keep selling user data. They make you go to some overly bloated list of things to disable, scroll all the way down to finally "confirm my choices". It’s voluntarily painful and with misleading wording.

These sites want you to believe that all this clunkyness is required by the EU law. It’s not. It’s the good old mislead-into-approval strategy, using dark patterns and blame-the-EU rethoric.

[joenot443]

Having been in two car accidents, if I neglected to wear seatbelts, I'd be dead. If I neglected to click Deny on every cookie popup, big tech will have very slightly more data about me. Your equivalence of the two tells me all I need to know about the amount of time you've spent thinking about this topic.

And for the record, if it really takes less than 100ms to read and clear interstitials, I'm more impressed with your button clicking skills than anything. Have you tried Osu?

[wyuenho]

I’m pretty sure your contact in a major company will be even more shocked if they knew what all these European FinTech companies do with their customer’s data.

All the important things such as purchasing habit that used to require indirect guesses are now directly available in their databases as essential functions.

[afpx]

We don't have a right to privacy in the US.