I suppose we fundamentally disagree on a few things here so I won't go into a discussion about the motivation of this law (which I as a EU citizen support). I do however want to leave a note on this quote here:
> All the framing as "nefarious" is propaganda, consumers choose freely the option they value the most.
Customers cannot choose freely. I'm a customer and I cannot chose certain products because they do not exist. Companies I never engage with are tracking my activities through tracking pixels and other things and because I never establish a business relationship with them, I cannot avoid that. This bill now forces a company I might do business with not do business with companies that do not permit me to get rid of my data.
I think this a good development because it finally makes certain backroom deals visible.
> Companies I never engage with are tracking my activities through tracking pixels and other things and because I never establish a business relationship with them, I cannot avoid that.
You can easily avoid being tracked by using an adblocker. Other websites only track you because they are business partners of the tracking companies, which provide a lot of value in terms of analytics for the business - free of charge.
> I think this a good development because it finally makes certain backroom deals visible.
As a German, I'd like to have more transparency into the backroom deals that are done in Berlin and Brussels.
But this won't happen unfortunately, and they'll try to regulate IT to death to the benefit of local corporations who failed again and again providing the consumer with as valuable producs as their US counterparts.
> You can easily avoid being tracked by using an adblocker.
Except not really. Plenty if tracking happens regardless based on fingerprinting. And even ignoring ads there are plenty of free services that after a while turn iut to be so shoddy that they lose the data i left on their services and provide no way for me to demand deletion.
I get a mail every other month that my email address and password where found in a data leak.
This regulation is a good first step of forcing companies to think about the consequences of having data.
> As a German, I'd like to have more transparency into the backroom deals that are done in Berlin and Brussels
Same. I want a lot of transparency including from my own government. I'm however going to accept any positive development and won't demand them to be in a certain order :P
There are a lot of people who are trying to shape the EU into a better institution. It's not perfect but it's a pretty good start.
> All the framing as "nefarious" is propaganda, consumers choose freely the option they value the most.
Customers cannot choose freely. I'm a customer and I cannot chose certain products because they do not exist. Companies I never engage with are tracking my activities through tracking pixels and other things and because I never establish a business relationship with them, I cannot avoid that. This bill now forces a company I might do business with not do business with companies that do not permit me to get rid of my data.
I think this a good development because it finally makes certain backroom deals visible.