Frankly, that’s a stupid ass take.
Reality is not binary, we progress and evolve. The constant pressure to be better than yesterday is the reason we got where we are.
Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
oh yeah i’ve heard about it.
basically, people got pissed with cookie banners so much that they complained to the EU government about it.
the EU government said “well, if people don’t like the choice to allow or deny cookies, i guess we’ll un-do these regulations”.
I think this is a very good example how people are always complaining, no matter what the government does.
If the government makes a law, a group of people complain. If the government later removes that same law that people kept whining about, another group of people complains. What to do?
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
what this is not a always complain situation. These banners are designed to annoy you. A competent non corrupt goverments respond would be to make rules so the design would not suck, and not remove them. But these ghouls dont work for the people anymore.
PKscope@lemmy.world 5 days ago
People complain because the law was poorly written, not because it is a bad idea.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s different groups of people with different interests.
Also doesn’t help that the cookie banners were a kind of malicious compliance. They were made deliberately difficult to navigate around when you didn’t immediate hit “accept everything unequivocally”.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Yeah; the response should be that a “reject all” button must be displayed next to the accept all button with equal prominence, and define prominence to mean the same size, with similar contrast to the accept all button and clearly labelled.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ll do you one better. “Websites should default to the minimal cookies option, with settings confined to a website option menu that does not occlude the entrance page.”
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
I think a better way might be that browsers can auto-decline all cookies.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Yeah, the malicious compliance was what should have been regulated instead. Ban the annoying cookie popup and require sites to make it opt-in by default. At most, sites should be allowed to have an option in a burger menu to allow cookies, and clicking that button would open the popup to specify which cookies you wanted to allow.