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inetknght on May 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Request for comments regarding topics to be discus...

It is absolutely a failure of regulators to regulate. It's not only a failure of regulators.

Designers of the tech are doing it because it's legal.

It's legal because regulators aren't enforcing laws in ways conducive to modern tech.

max_ on May 3, 2021 [–]

Look at GDPR. Regulators came in but we just ended up with disgusting pop ups and now legal over head for web developers.

inetknght on May 3, 2021 | [–]

Disgusting pop-ups are a side effect that help to demonstrate the problem. That's not the fault of GDPR. That's the fault of companies that (think they) are outside of the jurisdiction of GDPR.

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