Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change.
People in the 27-nation European Union can alter some of what shows up when they search, scroll and share on the biggest social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook and other tech giants like Google and Amazon.
That’s because Big Tech companies, most headquartered in the U.S., are now subject to a pioneering new set of EU digital regulations. The Digital Services Act aims to protect European users when it comes to privacy, transparency and removal of harmful or illegal content.
I wish we had this in the US, instead we just have conservatives try to take control of the entire Internet every couple of years.
Stop KOSA! 🫠
They were doing this back in 2002ish. The Screensavers used to run segments promoting the EFF all the time.
I think it was the left telling social media what they should and shouldn’t redact… everything from COVID scepticism to Hunter Bidens laptop.
Source?
Every single website now asks me if I want to accept cookies.
They don’t have to ask for cookies permission, just like they don’t have to ask for sending you JavaScript code (but should) or CSS styles. What they have to do is ask for permission for collecting personal data or sending it to third-parties. That’s all.
May I tell you about uBlock Origin?
and how would help that ?
It can hide cookie banners for you with the right settings. Since gdpr dictates no choice = no cookies, this should block all tracking stuff.
I don’t remember what exactly you need to enable, but you can use DDG to find out.
Since gdpr dictates no choice = no cookies, this should block all tracking stuff.
It should, but doesn’t. 90% of all of those prompts are basically illegal in several ways and this is one of them.
Maybe they should just stop trying to give us cookie
So they are legally not allowed to advertise to kids? Will you have to id yourself on every site? This is what the end goal is, right?
Not even close. They disallow targeted add for minors. That means that ads can still be shown, but not tailored ones for kids.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_20_2348
Just show porn ads everywhere. Problem solved.
