Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a monkey’s paw situation. Sure, the EU will protect us from American tech abuse… and implement the same policies internally.

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  • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We need an African Tech revolution. Unless their tech follows the same path, then we run to an Australian tech revolution. Asian tech is already cooked and has been for a long time.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What could be the reason this keeps happening everywhere???

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      • elvith@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The PH levels of the ocean

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    • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Africa tech is just Chinese tech so they’re already cooked.

      Australia basically banned encryption long ago and in doing killed off their tech industry.

      We need a New Zealand tech revolution, which is where all the Australian IT firms relocated to following the encryption ban.

      Encryption laws are hurting Australia’s tech sector, Atlassian says | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian - theguardian.com/…/encryption-laws-are-hurting-aus…

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• deadcream@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was never about freedom, but about restoring control of European governments over their citizens’ online presence and their data, so that everything they do on the internet is subject to European laws and regulations, not American ones.

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And much of that driven by lobbyism by the same media empires who are trying to get rid of ad blockers.

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