• Imhotep@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Why oh why didn’t the lawmakers add an obligation to use a standardized cookies selection popup.

    I remember day one of it coming into effect and it was already obvious this was a necessity.

    Lobbying. One of those laws pretending to do the right thing but sabotaged.

    Or maybe its even worse than that. Before you could just have the cookies deleted. But if you do that now you get the awful popup every time, so you just accept them in the end.
    I know I do.
    This law has made me accept cookies spying.

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      18 hours ago

      Because those laws were made with good intentions in mind.

      But businesses never have good intentions, especially if it eats into their revenue. So they use malicious compliance to make it seem like it is the law that is bad.

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        16 hours ago

        So really naive lawmakers then? Come on, that’s not how you make a company obey, everyone knows that, yet legislators time and again do an oopsie and make a highly symbolic law that obviously won’t work because there’s no coercion!