There is an infinitely more effective and trustworthy solution: an adblocker that blocks trackers. You don't have to spend minutes daily on dark-pattern banners. You don't risk the broken implementations that still track you no matter what you click, that regulators can't oversee on billions of websites.
They should just keep the thing that lets you request full deletion of your account and data, the rest is total security theater. The EU's top #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 priority right now should be achieving digital sovereignty and getting a strong homegrown tech industry (ban American social media and force local alternatives?) so the US can't coerce it. That'll require some additional, different regulations, and that's the kind they should focus all efforts on for the foreseeable future. They put the cart before the horse.
Look at the sanctioned ICC judges (EU-based). Can't use any credit/debit cards (all American). Can't do any online e-commerce (there's a US entity somewhere in the flow). No Google/Apple accounts (how useful is your iPhone without the App Store?). "Regulate" foreign companies all you want, ultimately you still have no power over them. Cart before the horse.
> There is an infinitely more effective and trustworthy solution: an adblocker that blocks trackers. You don't have to spend minutes daily on dark-pattern banners. You don't risk the broken implementations that still track you no matter what you click, that regulators can't oversee on billions of websites.
try untangling the tracking code from the rest of the javascript code which is required for the sites to work - simply unrealistic.
They should just keep the thing that lets you request full deletion of your account and data, the rest is total security theater. The EU's top #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 priority right now should be achieving digital sovereignty and getting a strong homegrown tech industry (ban American social media and force local alternatives?) so the US can't coerce it. That'll require some additional, different regulations, and that's the kind they should focus all efforts on for the foreseeable future. They put the cart before the horse.
Look at the sanctioned ICC judges (EU-based). Can't use any credit/debit cards (all American). Can't do any online e-commerce (there's a US entity somewhere in the flow). No Google/Apple accounts (how useful is your iPhone without the App Store?). "Regulate" foreign companies all you want, ultimately you still have no power over them. Cart before the horse.