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US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

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572 points gausswho | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 22:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pjmlp ◴[09 Jul 25 09:47 UTC] No.44507998[source]▶
The consumer protection laws are so bad the other side of Atlantic.

Most European countries, have their own version of consumer protection agencies, usually any kind of complaint gets sorted out, even if takes a couple months.

If they fail for whatever reason, there is still the top European one.

Most of the time I read about FTC, it appears to side with the wrong guys.

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mindwork ◴[09 Jul 25 16:59 UTC] No.44512341[source]▶
At the same time European laws got whole internet littered with "Accept cookies" banners
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1. devjab ◴[09 Jul 25 19:24 UTC] No.44513876[source]▶
The cookie banner pop-ups are not compliance with the EU legislation, in fact, many of them are in direct violation of EU laws. If you were to give sites the benefit of doubt, they are doing it because they are copy pasting, but the reality is, that the law is that they can not track you without your concent and that they are not allowed to bother you. The fact that they do is likely malicious compliance to get you to blame the EU rather than their shitty tracking practices.

Any site that doesn't have a single button click to ignore all cookies, breaks EU law. But to truly follow the law, you would have to go into a site setting on your own, and enable tracking. Which nobody would do.