As with so many things, that this was legal in the first place is the problem.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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It ain't legal in civilized countries.
kind of ironic that this article is hosted on a site with several pages worth of cookie selections that you have to scroll through and opt out of
enshittification of the net continues
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Is this a EU-only feature?
I can't seem to get the cookie page to pop up on this one even if I turn off adblockers, but in most cases yes.
Some sites I'll go to using my regular US-based IP address, and I'll have to manually click through to disable cookies, sometimes by category and sometimes individually for dozens or hundreds but to accept all is one click. It's heavily designed to pressure you to click accept all and move on.
If I connect to an EU country via VPN and visit the same sites on a fresh browser session, I'll see a similar "No I don't accept" popup.
Yeah, I was afraid that would be the case. Recently we're getting some "consent or pay" popups, which are also being debated and will likely become illegal.
Guess it makes even more sense to use a VPN in the US, then.