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Maybe GDPR is okay, I'm not terribly well informed about it. But every couple weeks the entire internet is up in arms against a new attempt by the EU to censor the entire internet, and I've been dealing for too long with the damn "We use cookies" pop-up they ignorantly required.

So I'm just saying their track record isn't great.




> the entire internet is up in arms against a new attempt by the EU to censor the entire internet

I must be out of the loop because I'm not familiar with what "the entire Internet" is up in arms about. Can you give a specific example?

Re:cookies - you do realize that "we use cookies" almost universally means "we use third-party cookies" and that third-party cookies are the number one way that advertisers and other unsavory entities track your Internet usage across sites, right? Don't you think people deserve to know that their Internet usage is essentially being tracked granularly without their consent or knowledge for profit? If not, why not?




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