Comment on Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s stuff like chat control that make me hate the EU sometimes.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh and the really really dumb cookie law.

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The cookie law isn’t dumb, but at this point it should maybe be reformed. Basically as long as a website doesn’t do shady shit with cookies no cookie banner is required. Instead of complaining about the cookie banner law, people should complain about websites who sell their users’ data.

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      • denshi@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Basically as long as a website doesn’t do shady shit with cookies no cookie banner is required.

        That is actually the status quo. If a website only uses cookies that are needed to make the website function, there is no need for a banner or dialogue. These cookie banners are there deliberately to be annoying so you’ll agree to more than is necessary.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The dumb bit of the law is the fact that websites are allowed to put up an annoying banner that says either accept cookies or individually deselect 240 checkboxes.

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      • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The newest take on cookies, is “accept all, or pay to read”. Quite shady, if you ask me.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  because the people who hate the eu are the people who are wrong.

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