They could have made it as simple as "if you don't respect DNT you go to jail" instead they were bribed by American corporations to adopt the American-style legalism we suffer from here.
There is another interpretation of privacy which is "freedom from harassment" and American internet companies want nothing less than the right to harass you and interrupt you from cradle to grave: if they want to build dossiers, it is to harass more profitably.
Until GDPR web professionals fought tooth and nail to keep modal dialogs out of web applications, mostly successfully. Since the GDPR makes the first interaction you have with a web site harassment it breaks the dam for further harassment. Now the average blog pops up three modal dialogs asking for your email address before you can even read anything, often one modal dialog makes it impossible to close the others.
No wonder the world is overrun with right-wing populism. Thanks, EU.
wellllll, Canada has whooped the Americans AND the French before, Germans too.
The Americans will just kill us, but the euros will snide and sneer bit by bit slowly disolving anything recognisably Canadian under the impossible weight of there beurocracys, and then get back to good old neocolonialist plundering of resources, which will all be dutifly stamped "sustainable"
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There is another interpretation of privacy which is "freedom from harassment" and American internet companies want nothing less than the right to harass you and interrupt you from cradle to grave: if they want to build dossiers, it is to harass more profitably.
Until GDPR web professionals fought tooth and nail to keep modal dialogs out of web applications, mostly successfully. Since the GDPR makes the first interaction you have with a web site harassment it breaks the dam for further harassment. Now the average blog pops up three modal dialogs asking for your email address before you can even read anything, often one modal dialog makes it impossible to close the others.
No wonder the world is overrun with right-wing populism. Thanks, EU.