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throwpoaster ◴[] No.44611283[source]
EU is going to add popups to all the LLMs like they did all the websites. :(
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gond ◴[] No.44611775[source]
No, the EU did not do that.

Companies did that and thoughtless website owners, small and large, who decided that it is better to collect arbitrary data, even if they have no capacity to convert it into information.

The solution to get rid of cookie banners, as it was intended, is super simple: only use cookies if absolutely necessary.

It was and is a blatant misuse. The website owners all have a choice: shift the responsibility from themselves to the users and bugger them with endless pop ups, collect the data and don’t give a shit about user experience. Or, just don’t use cookies for a change.

And look which decision they all made.

A few notable examples do exist: https://fabiensanglard.net/ No popups, no banner, nothing. He just don’t collect anything, thus, no need for a cookie banner.

The mistake the EU made was to not foresee the madness used to make these decisions.

I’ll give you that it was an ugly, ugly outcome. :(

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1. varenc ◴[] No.44612507[source]
If the law incentivized practically every website to implement the law in the "wrong" way, then the law seems wrong and its implications weren't fully thought out.