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Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach

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297 points rntn | 2 comments | 18 Jul 25 17:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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throwpoaster ◴[19 Jul 25 00:14 UTC] No.44611283[source]▶
EU is going to add popups to all the LLMs like they did all the websites. :(
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lofaszvanitt ◴[19 Jul 25 01:13 UTC] No.44611633[source]▶
No popup is required, just every lobotomized idiot copies what the big players do....

Oh ma dey have popups. We need dem too! Haha, we happy!

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zdragnar ◴[19 Jul 25 01:30 UTC] No.44611718[source]▶
Actually, it's because marketing departments rely heavily on tracking cookies and pixels to be their job, as their job is measured on things like conversations and understanding how effective their ad spend is.

The regulations came along, but nobody told marketing how to do their job without the cookies, so every business site keeps doing the same thing they were doing, but with a cookie banner that is hopefully obtrusive enough that users just click through it.

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1. tjwebbnorfolk ◴[19 Jul 25 01:37 UTC] No.44611754[source]▶
No it's because I'll get fined by some bureaucrat who has never run a business in his life if I don't put a pointless popup on my stupid-simple shopify store.
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2. jungturk ◴[19 Jul 25 03:08 UTC] No.44612222[source]▶
Is it an option for your simple store to not collect data about subjects without their consent? Seems like an easy win.

Your choice to use frameworks subsidized by surveillance capitalism doesn't need to preclude my ability to agree to participate does it?

Maybe a handy notification when I visit your store asking if I agree to participate would be a happy compromise?