Who are these “they” that has admitted it’s a bad law?
It’s one of the best recent pieces of privacy legeslation. It’s not the EU’s fault that websites are scumbags insisting on making life difficult for people.
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echodot@feddit.uk 5 months agoIt’s the EU’s fault and their stupid ill thought out law. Even they admit that it’s bad, and it’s only made things worse.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Yes it is. They completely failed to specify what would constitute compliance. They were warned repeatedly about this when the law first came out.
It has good intentions behind it but the lord itself doesn’t work. They haven’t reduced privacy violations at all because everyone just clicks yes because it’s so frustrating, And it isn’t against the law to implement these dark patterns so what’s the point?
HATEFISH@midwest.social 5 months ago
I don’t mean the banner ads for cookies, I’m referring to sites restricting viewable content based on your selection. Which seems to be illegal in the EU.