Michal BryxíEU: Here is this thing called GDPR to protect people.
Corporations: Weeel, protecting users does not suit our extractive practices, so we will introduce this little coerc...ehm...consent cookier banner so that people can happily keep being exploited.
People: Booo EU! Such a dum-dum idea this GDPR thing.
Me: :confused-travolta-meme:
ferricoxide@MichalBryxi Thanks to the #Trump administration, the EU (and elsewhere) has a real opportunity to rethink their IP treaties and divorce themselves from the overly extractive US-based companies.
Bas (Tools on Tech)@MichalBryxi Yeah the boo is mostly because now we must click a stupid banner and we are still getting exploited.
I like the spirit of the thing but the execution is stupid.
@toolsontech I'd wish that patching laws would be as easy as patching software. GDPRv2 is long overdue.
@MichalBryxi Having worked in government for a couple of years I have a theory that one of the reasons software development is slow there is because the mindset it, "change is hard".
And while that applies to laws for sure, as it has a large impact and people are already set in their ways, this of course doesn't apply to software.
@toolsontech For sure laws are slow. And it has its reason - uncertainty would severely flip over certainties & planning.
But the bypassing of corporations of GDPR has been around for ~decade(?), so I would think it's time for the patch.
Also: It's technically trivial to accept a law that forces a good situation for the users. There's just no will /me thinks.
@MichalBryxi it's trivial to add a law but hard to change. Example is ebikes in NL, treated as bikes, good for people but now injuries are way up and it's near impossible to change the law to treat them as mopeds. (Read require helmet and insurance)
So in general you want to do it "right" out of the gate. And yeah, GDPR is due an update it will just take so much longer to do proper I'm afraid
@toolsontech Yes, changing a thing that overreaches to physical world has long lasting consequences, but as with other things in life: Doing the cut is often times less costly than the struggle of status quo.