Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying
TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 months agoPlease do remove it entirely.
I manufacture data about myself. Businesses want to collect this data for their commercial benefit and profit, without paying me. Cookie splash screens almost provide a method for this to happen legitimately, while still not providing me fair consideration.
Businesses should be prohibited from collecting user data, from taking value, without paying for it.
sacbuntchris@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How could you enforce a ban on any kind of user data and how could such a compensation system even work?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 months ago
A ban wouldn’t work, because data collection is endemic. The cat is out of the bag.
Compensation could work through legislation and a commercial structure that dictates how things should be bought and sold. In Germany, rent is decided by the local town hall (Rathaus) on a per square metre basis. Such a system is not without flaws, but it’s better than unfettered abuse by those who have against those who have not.
Syntha@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t know where you have your ideas about Getman rent from but I assure you that, barring some rent-control, the German rental market is free.