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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 17:45:57 JST Aral Balkan

   Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

   Turns out they’re illegal.

   https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

   #TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism

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     Limnetic Villains (limneticvillains@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 18:01:36 JST Limnetic Villains

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     @aral Great, those fucking things have been pissing me off for ages now. Maybe now they'll vanish, and if more paywalls come up so be it, I'm rapidly losing interest in bypassing them only to see someone trying to sell me biased info or opinion piece drivel.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 18:01:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Limnetic Villains

     @limneticvillains Well, legal clarity is one thing. Enforcement is another. I guess we’ll see.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 22:33:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     • stux⚡

     @stux Yep :)

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     stux⚡ (stux@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 22:33:07 JST stux⚡

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     @aral I see those warnings as:

     "Don't visit this site"

     It often works since my mouse clicks on the little cross 😀