alt Hacker NewsIt's funny that they keep trying, it has never once worked. I think US companies are projecting their dislike for regulation and keep being surprised that EU citizens don't agree. We do not love the EU government, but it sometimes does a good thing and we do like these, especially versus the anti-consumer crap that US companies like to pull.
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we do not love the EU government because there are billions being poured into promoting the discourse that the EU is a bad thing by both private and state actors.
> It's funny that they keep trying, it has never once worked.
Sure it has. Consider cookie banners: widespread malicious faux-compliance from the start, and approximately nothing was done about it for most of a decade, while people were tricked into believing they were GDPR’s fault. Even now when a little has been done about it, the significant majority of cookie banners are very obviously not compliant with GDPR or ePD requirements, and no consequences occur.
Yes Us Companies Are doing this ofc
I don't think this is any corporate conspiracy. The truth is probably more mundane: regulation is treated as obstacle to navigate around with minimal amount of effort, and not a reason to give up on practices that makes money.