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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

Lawmaking is a slow and tedious process full of compromises, and the EU is apparently the only governmental body that cares enough to actually do something against the wild west of digital tracking. I for one am happy about that, and contrary to public opinion the GDPR is actually being enforced (albeit not strictly enough).