Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.
Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.
@pfernandes @stroughtonsmith @gruber You’re permeating the lies of surveillance capitalism. Europe isn’t catching up to anyone; GDRP is a strong, world-leading protection of privacy. And the cookie banners exist only due to malicious compliance by the surveillance capitalists.
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] @[email protected] The popups aren’t required, though. As long as the cookies are needed for the site to function, and are not used for data harvesting, analytics, or similar, implicit consent is fine. The consent only needs to be explicit if the site is harvesting its users. https://blog.getadmiral.com/cookie-consent-law-in-eu-us-uk-and-other-countries
John Gruber
Steve Troughton-Smith
Pedro Fernandes
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