Stocks, Investing, Gambling, Bitcoin .etc
Look, I’m not a fucking broker or a hustler, okay? I don’t care that you keep running around telling me or others to go waste our time and money to put into markets that can be incredibly unpredictable. It is all about luck, chance and risk. Things most wouldn’t want to put themselves on the line over even if they were down next to nothing. They’d rather buy lottery tickets.
It isn’t a cookie popup law, that’s the advertising industry’s spin on it. It’s a law against taking personal data without consent and/or for illegitimate purposes (according to the lawmakers). You don’t need a popup for essential cookies.
It is absolutely a cookie popup law, because you have to ask permission to use them for anything nonessential, like tracking, which pretty much everyone does.
But again, I don’t care as long as it’s only people in the EU that have to put up with it. You vote for the people who put the legislation in place, and if you want to, you can just vote them out. If I want to legislatively address it, I have to push for laws that penalize companies that do it here, which is ridiculous.
They can stop tracking you, that way they don’t have to ask anything… which is precisely what they don’t want to do and why they complained so much about GDPR. Lucky for them only a handful of European countries give a crap about privacy and actually enforce it in any meaningful way.
uBlock origin has lists to remove a lot of the popups (and blocks most trackers), browsing the Web in 2024 without it is torture.
Probably not, but a lot of them do. Meanwhile, I’d already solved that problem in a more-effective way than Brussels had by not letting them retain cookies at all, so what Brussels accomplished was to make a bunch of cookie popups get thrown in my face and require me to disable my more-effective solution if I don’t want to click through them all the time.
I’m using uBlock too. This is what makes it through.
EDIT: Not to mention that even the EU’s own website didn’t stop using tracking cookies. Even they just started throwing up the dialog. And I just checked, and they’re still doing that in 2024 and still showing it to me, though I’m not in the EU.
https://european-union.europa.eu/