u/digdilem — DigitalDilemma

What a rubbish article. Complete non-story.

That's exactly my point.

The legislation, from the start, should have upheld the do not track and similar settings in browsers. Require websites to check and honour those flags.

Instead, we get some half-arsed requirement to add cookie banners to every website under some vague threat of prosecution (which never seems to happen unless you're a social media giant) that inconveniences every single user, and often more than once.

This here, now, is a tiny bandage on a gaping wound caused by not doing what was required in the first place.

Another layer of annoying on a massively stupid piece of legislation that has made the internet immeasurably worse for everyone.

These preferences should be settable in the browser, transferred during http* connection and honoured by every single website you use.

Any changes that marketeers come up with should be ratified in the same way that changes to internet protocols are, and if the browser doesn't support them yet, they are assumed "do not".

Good news. Tourism is far more important to Iceland than the few people who were still eating whalemeat, and they're smart enough to realise how many people were turned away because of it.

subordinate to the U.S. because 'murica.

Not quite - he wants them to be subordinate to **him**.

In olden days, Kings would force fealty by forcing others to "kiss the ring". That's exactly what he tries to do - and what was behind the ridiculous display with his guest, President Zelensky.

We've seen him hide behind his title again and again when people challenge him "You don't speak to the president like that!" Yet any small successes are entirely his doing. Shameful, if the man had any shame whatsoever.

That would increase the prices in the exporting countries. It's not as if there's such a huge surfeit that they're being destroyed.

Over the past year Musk has removed all masks and clearly believes he can operate beyond the law. His motives are clearly to watch the world burn. He is an extremely dangerous, unpredictable and powerful man, threatening democracy across the globe.

Our governments need to protect us from him. Brazil's being brave here, I hope they're just the first.