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France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking

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249 points sebastian_z | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 17:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.476s | source
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MR4D ◴[31 Mar 25 18:22 UTC] No.43538042[source]▶
I’m curious how things like this play into Trumps recent reciprocal tariff threats.
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danieldk ◴[31 Mar 25 18:28 UTC] No.43538120[source]▶
Probably it will. Vance even threatened to leave NATO if the EU regulates X. But EU countries are not satellite states of the US. At some point we just have to draw a line in the sand and stand by our own values, even if it comes at an expense. It's not as if tariffs and the retaliatory tariffs it will lead to is good for the US economy either.

It's all just silly.

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1. kazen44 ◴[31 Mar 25 19:17 UTC] No.43538676[source]▶
a lot of european nations are also discussing on how to create more inhouse and become digitally sovereign from US tech firms. (the dutch government for instance[0])

5 or even 10 years ago this would have been unthinkable in dutch politics, even if this has been called out a lot as a risk in tech circles.

[0] https://www.dutchitchannel.nl/news/602753/tweede-kamer-neemt...

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2. tick_tock_tick ◴[31 Mar 25 20:14 UTC] No.43539383[source]▶
Europe has been pushing this politically for over a decade now.... It's just every European initiative to fix it has failed.