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Which is illegal in the EU and about to be illegal in Australia
¯\_(ツ)_/¯Australia? How ? Isn't Australia one of the five eyes country? Like more the data these companies collect its better for Australia.
I'll be very surprised if our govt does anything positive when it comes to digital rights. The current shower of arseholes in government supported the previous even bigger shower of arseholes to pass diabolical legislation like data retention and assistance and access bills.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/4017115
The EU just does so many things right.
America: "SoCiALisM"
I am actually not even sure that is true. Some News sites like golem.de and heise.de are doing this for years. It is basically agree to this or leave the site.
This may or may not be illegal, depending on what the “this” is you’re agreeing to. As a simple example, if it is “you agree to functional cookies by continuing to use the site”, that’s fine. If it is “you agree to us scraping your computer and selling everything we find to China”, that is most definitely not legal, nor is refusing service if you don’t agree.