u/Ethalis

Yep, same. I had money saved up since the announcement to buy the controller when it launches, but this is seriously making me consider just buying and Xbox controller instead

Ireland is another European country that speaks English, but I'll grant you that it's not super relevant in this case considered it's geographical position behind the UK

Honestly I don't think it's that complicated. I'm convinced he just threw a temper tantrum because his ego couldn't handle being let go of his position has head of DOGE, and since Trump's ego is just as big as his things just escalated from there

Just so you know: GDPR has (mostly) nothing to do with those cookie banners. It's a very broad text that doesn't go into specifics like that.

What you're seeing is a result of the 2002 E-Privacy directive that has been reinterpreted by data privacy authorities in light of the new definition of consent brought by the GDPR.

Basically, since 2002, websites are required to ask users for consent before depositing cookies. The issue was that there was no definition of what this consent meant. What the GDPR did is simply to define the concept of consent as a free expression of will that must come from a positive act (i.e. it must be explicit rather than implicit).

The GDPR was supposed to come out with a sister regulation called the E-Privacy regulation, but due to intense lobbying that text was buried. Local data protection authorities in Europe then decided to reinterpret that old directive in light of the GDPR to fill the gap.

All in all, blame the lobbyists, not the GDPR

"Why should we solve the world's problems for free? The rest of the world should pay us!"

Wine and champagne? Bernard Arnault must be glad he supported Trump

France says hi

It happens every year. Basically, ever since media started publishing statistics on which city had the most burnt cars on new years eve, some people made it a challenge of which city will "win"