German court declares “Do Not Track” to be legally binding

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• guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Next question: How to get the whole EU to take this legal position?

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  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I could see it happen eventually. Would definitely be the best outcome for this whole consent banner madness.

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• Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, let's see how tue whole IT world weasels out of this one.

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  • perviouslyiner@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “oh we can’t possibly understand that field as there is no agreed industry standard for how to treat it” - get out, you know exactly what it means.

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    • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bein forced to accept this would make their whole dark pattern cookie bullshit useless, sooooo

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  • governorkeagan@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’ll be interesting for sure! Specifically the big tech companies (looking at you Meta, Google, Microsoft)

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good luck enforcing it.

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• magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Title in English, article in German… not great.

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  • jlow@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, true. But maybe the perfect time to try the new translation feature in Firefox? ^__^

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    • magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t like or trust software translation. It’s often clunky, feels unnatural, and misses important nuance.

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• Vexz@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The title is misleading. The article only talks about LinkedIn.

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  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's called legal precedence.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kinda makes me want to move to Germany…

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• HanabiYokai@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hell yes!

  Now if only this type of ruling would happen everywhere.

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