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Businesses exists for consumers. Fragmenting hurts people - European users - in the first place.

I see very little advantages from these privacy laws but I use and appreciate US businesses every day.




So if those businesses utterly refuse to serve consumers then they have no business existing?


They are definitely serving consumers, otherwise they would cease existing. They're not serving politicians and their pet cause of the day though.


What, you don't appreciate a pop-up on every web page telling you that cookies are going to be used? XD


The cookie banners are a byproduct of companies still wanting to abuse your data, when was the last time you saw a cookie pop-up on HN? Logged in or not.


If only there were some way that European citizens could have told their browsers to not accept Cookies, then maybe we all wouldn't have to click on those banners all the damn time.


But I do want most non-tracking cookies.

Still, the "please let us track" popups can be fixed by policy or law, and I hope they are.




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