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Chat Control 1.0 passed the European Parliament — through the back door (www.euronews.com)
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https://www.tradingview.com/news/cointelegraph:9e6975706094b:0-eu-parliament-passes-chat-control-allowing-private-chat-scans-until-2028/

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[–] 19 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

So the EU made everyone put endless cookie acceptance popups up in the name of "privacy" then turns around and flagrantly violates it in the name of "protecting children". In the US the only thing that isn't done in the name of "protecting children" is gun regulation.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The EU didn't make anyone do that, site that have no business recoding the information put those up as a dark pattern to try and force people into accepting the terms so they can claim informed consent to the tracking. It's malicious compliance, they could just not collect that tracking data that isn't required to provide the service.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You got it a little backwards. Websites were already collecting that data and adding those cookies, the EU regulation forced them to tell you about it and let you opt-out.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You are right, they were already doing that but the annoying popups aren't because of the EU, the sites could just not set cookies to collect data they didn't need to provide the service by default and not nag you constantly to let them have their way. It's operation "wear them down" .

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Well of course, but my point was the data collection and tracking and all that other stuff was already happening in full volume prior to the regulation. The nagging to re-enable is a dark pattern of course, but prior to that the only recourse we had was to disable all cookies at the browser level.

    To that point, as much as cookies have been associated with tracking and ads and such, they have/had a very important purpose in providing services on a website. It's how the "remember me" button works for instance, or to store your preferences without making an account, among other things.

    However, because a browser can't really easily determine what a cookie is used for since it's basically just an ID and a (usually) encrypted data blob, the only guaranteed way for it to block tracking cookies is to block all cookies. The EU regulation IMO is a "good" regulation, with the inevitable malicious compliance of corporations.

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