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You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
matduggan.com/you-know-gdpr-is-good-based-on-who-hates-it/
I was going to dismiss this because
- we know already
- looking at the rest of the world through US-shaded glasses
but this quote rocks:
Blaming GDPR for the cookie banner is like blaming the health inspector for the roaches. The banner is deliberate vandalism, a dark pattern engineered to exhaust you before you can learn anything about the surveillance apparatus humming behind the “OK.”
Cookie banners are malicious compliance*.
What follows is just as quote-worthy, e.g.:
On May 25th, 2018, GDPR took effect to the sound of American commentary, the way fireworks take effect to the sound of dogs.
* edit: he says that himself later. I like this guy.
Replying to @A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
I was honestly sooo incredibly proud when my boss told me: “We’ll do everything to avoid having to present a cookie banner. See that nothing links to Google or Facebook, I want the most information we can get about our visitors while as little as is needed to be GDPR compliant and give nothing to big data.”
The result is we’ll collect data about how visitors use the website without any personal information, completely anonymous until you log in. No ads, no tracking, no Google Analytics and no active social media snippets until the user themself activates them. And we were still able to see what was doing good or doing bad on the site.