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Has anyone in EU asked themselves if those banners have accomplished anything besides being a giant waste of time and space having hundreds of millions of people not read the text and automatically clicking x?

I’m not even from EU and I’ve had to click them countless times. And I don’t think I’ve read a single one, even though I’m pretty hardcore when it comes to privacy.



It greatly saddens me that companies will go to great lengths to geofence content but not annoying popovers. The US or someone needs to get a clause into their next EU trade agreement to make it illegal to serve those outside the EU :)


Maybe EU should regulate a new policy of not annoying non EU people with their internet regulations.

The one thing the EU understands is how to add more rules! Forget trying to get them to fix an existing one.




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