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0 pointsnotriddle4y ago0 comments

I’m convinced that a lot of the really annoying cookie prompts are the result of two things:

* paranoia, from small websites that are understandably worried about massive fines that could actually put their one-man-show into the poor house

* retaliation, from large websites that intentionally want to turn public sentiment against privacy laws

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We were naive if we ever thought the end result would be otherwise.

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0 pointsnotriddle4y ago0 comments

I’m convinced that a lot of the really annoying cookie prompts are the result of two things:

* paranoia, from small websites that are understandably worried about massive fines that could actually put their one-man-show into the poor house

* retaliation, from large websites that intentionally want to turn public sentiment against privacy laws

We were naive if we ever thought the end result would be otherwise.

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