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The law: exists, and is quite unequivocal.

Sites: implement things that are actually illegal under the law

HN, en masse: the law is bad, how can you say it's good?

EU has been very slow in going after websites, but I do hope they pick up the pace.



EU has far overreached, I hope their declining relevancy hastens and their holier than thou attitude continues to aid it in doing so


> EU has far overreached

How exactly did it overreach? Every country in Europe had data protection laws prior to GDPR. All these shitty sites ignored them.

So EU created a single law. If you want to sell people's data without their consent, go <expletive deleted>.

The US will eventually have similar laws as well (CCPA is one if them)


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10 years in Sweden, and counting.


Maybe you have the opposite problem then, get out for a trip and see how much better browsing the web is


You have any arguments beyond ad hominem? This law exposes a very serious problem: even sites like Oracle's news blog or Volvo's corporate site, or British Airways's profile pages are selling your data to hundreds of advertisers.




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