This is what happens when you rely on American tech companies. Apple is pulling shit with Europe, the home of "civilisation", that feels like it's straight out of a stupid reality show over regulations regarding sideloading and privacy. And clowns like this will regurgigate the dumbest and the most worn-out libertarian shit in first tier media outlets.
Tbh I don't get the point behind GDPR. Is it genuinely meant to ensure privacy to some extent or is it just some form of protectionism against American tech companies?
GDPR is pretty solid if you ask me and basically makes it illegal to share your customers' data with third parties without explicit permission. The result of that is a lot of US websites refuse to serve European countries because they are all about selling data.
What confuses me is that the cookie permission banners/modals are some real asshole shits. "Reject all" option is behind 2 or 3 clicks whereas the "accept all' option is the first thing you see. I wish they had made patterns like those illegal as well.
They are illegal, just not enforced properly
That's actually from a completely different set of legislation that came in earlier regarding cookies in general. Although it does overlap a bit.
Either way, European websites have to have a reject all button clearly displayed.
German democratic peoples Republic???
Lol, either autoincorrect got them, or their brain autocorrect did. I didn't even notice.
Perhaps the European businesses can use that as a selling point - start a business that directly competes with a US company that doesn't want to comply.
It won't be easy, it won't be fast, but the sooner this starts happening, the better.
PS - I'm American. Improving distribution of vendors can only help the marketplace by reducing reliance on a small set of sources. We already have too much concentration in the space - look at Amazon. I make it a point to shop elsewhere as much as I can, e.g. Aliexpress.com - they're South Korean.