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by iamacyborg 3 days ago
> People dislike it because they dislike its practical effects, and frankly the EU should take responsibility for that and try to fix it.

What’s to fix?

A business needs a legitimate reason to process personal data, people need to be sufficiently informed about how their data will be processed. These are not impossible obstacles. Anyone who claims otherwise is acting in bad faith because they know that people would not agree to what the business wants to do with their data.

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> What’s to fix?

Is this not your own comment, from just a few hours ago, visible on the same viewport as this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445299

Why is it that so many years later, so many companies are still not compliant? That seems like a major problem to fix.

You are replying to a comment complaining about the annoyance for users that the law has created. When will that be fixed?

Why is it that all of the enforcement effort been so unevenly directed specifically at non-European companies?

This subthread started with the statement "True but it also reflects that the EU has indeed destroyed most goodwill towards it in the last decade regarding most things digital."

I think maybe you don't understand that the level of goodwill destroyed really is on par with the level of goodwill towards American that Trump has destroyed. Yes, it is really that bad. Yes, it is something that needs to be fixed.

> Why is it that all of the enforcement effort been so unevenly directed specifically at non-European companies?

Do you have any evidence of that?

> You are replying to a comment complaining about the annoyance for users that the law has created. When will that be fixed?

The law isn’t about fixing an annoyance to users. If you’re annoyed by bad UX, tell your boss to cut that shit out because they’re probably part of the problem too.

What I struggle to understand is you’d rather have your privacy right absolutely derailed just so you have a couple things less to click. Wild.