@mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
2026-01-03 00:35 UTC
> Tired of those annoying cookie banners? They’re not just frustrating—they're a lazy response to GDPR.
They’re not *lazy*, they’re *maliciously compliant*. The sites *know* how to comply with GDPR, but wanted to throw a fit instead. So they came up with the annoying cookie banners, to make users hate GDPR instead of hating the sites that were stealing and selling all of their data. And the worst part is that it worked. Many people wholly equate GDPR with the cookie banners, instead of the massive leap in privacy rights that it represented when it was passed.
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@Kissaki@feddit.org 2026-01-03 01:34
> They’re not lazy, they’re maliciously compliant. Often times they're not even compliant.
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-01-03 00:54
It's a lot easier to dislike GDPR when you don't live in a country that benefits from it, but it still annoys you.
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@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-03 22:12
This is not correct. Since gdpr isn't required in most of the world, they don't want to comply. It's not about making users hate them. It's about collecting data, and simply complying with gdpr where they have to, and only where they have to.