The Current System of Online Advertising has Been Ruled Illegal by The Belgian Court of Appeal. Advertising itself is Still Allowed, but not in a Way That Secretly Tracks Everyone’s Behavior.
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Big corpos aren't going to comply and pay a small fine instead. https://proton.me/tech-fines-tracker
We need the corporate death penalty.
Or at least take 100% of their revenue (not profit) until they comply.
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how is Belgium to live in and what would it look like to live there right now?
It's literally between France, Germany and the Netherlands, I mean geographically yes but roughly culturally too. Arguably Brussels is a mix of all that and other cities again match where they are.
So... it's a Western European country with good quality of life
despitethanks to having one of the very highest taxes rate. You don't have to be a socialist to be here but if you want to become a rich entrepreneur it's going to be challenging.Source : immigrated there from France ~10 years ago.
Edit: s/despite/thanks to/
it's a Western European country with good quality of life despite having one of the very highest taxes rate.
"Despite"? Try, "because"
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I'm not sure a technical solution is feasible, other than dns-blocking these trackers. I suppose lawmakers need to spring into action to make this shit illegal.
That is indeed the solution.
A technical solution won't cut it. Here's a very convoluted example: the <p> tag allows you to send the text "buy illegal drugs here" to kids!! Omg!!! What to do? Remove the <p> tag? Obviously not. You ban the practice.
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it's a Western European country with good quality of life despite having one of the very highest taxes rate.
"Despite"? Try, "because"
I think they’re actually right about this one, taxes tend to cover things that give you high standard of living more than quality of life.
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From time to time, important news gets overshadowed by other headlines, even though it could have a profound impact on our (online) world. To most of us, few things are more bothersome than the dreaded cookie banners. On countless websites, you’re confronted with a pesky pop-up urging you to agree to something. You end up consenting without really knowing what it is. If you try to figure out what’s going on, you quickly get lost among the often hundreds of “partners” who want access to your personal data. Even if you do give your consent, it’s questionable whether you truly understand what you’re agreeing to.
wow i didn't know belgium was based. I guess i was wrong when i thought they peaked with french fries
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I'm not sure a technical solution is feasible, other than dns-blocking these trackers. I suppose lawmakers need to spring into action to make this shit illegal.
You could probably set a cap on how many different fingerprinty attributes a script is allowed to grab before requesting permission from the user.
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Cookies are old news. What about browser fingerprinting which can track you across websites? https://www.amiunique.org/
There's basically no easy way to safeguard against it without making browsing nearly unusable.
GDPR is regarding personal data, which includes cookies as well as any other fingerprinting. Even though browser fingerprinting does not persist any data on a device itself, explicit consent must be gathered before it's used for processing (i.e. tracking) purposes.
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I 100% agree and totally get why I am being downvoted, but just disabling advertising or banning tracking cookies are not a magic fix to save the internet from the perspective of the companies that now show these ads. But I am definitely I favour of changes, the enshittication went way to far already. But there is more than big social media platforms is what I mean to say.
I agree with that!
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it's a Western European country with good quality of life despite having one of the very highest taxes rate.
"Despite"? Try, "because"
You're right obviously, you dirty communist! /$
Post updated accordingly.
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wow i didn't know belgium was based. I guess i was wrong when i thought they peaked with french fries
Idk, their waffles and chocolates are pretty good too.
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I think they’re actually right about this one, taxes tend to cover things that give you high standard of living more than quality of life.
Curious what the distinction between "standard of living" and "quality of life" here is... I'm sure there are subtle differences, but surely taxes contribute to both (which themselves are interrelated).
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Idk, their waffles and chocolates are pretty good too.
And beer
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I think you can reap the benefits from just using a VPN and set the country to Belgium?
Huh, according to the logs, the population of Belgium increased by ~10x, and most people seem to be moving to this area with loss lots of data centers. Checks out.
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From time to time, important news gets overshadowed by other headlines, even though it could have a profound impact on our (online) world. To most of us, few things are more bothersome than the dreaded cookie banners. On countless websites, you’re confronted with a pesky pop-up urging you to agree to something. You end up consenting without really knowing what it is. If you try to figure out what’s going on, you quickly get lost among the often hundreds of “partners” who want access to your personal data. Even if you do give your consent, it’s questionable whether you truly understand what you’re agreeing to.
This needs to be worldwide.
And... PURGE ALL USER INFORMATION!
I don't care for those 'but what about those people planning/planned crimes?' The one thing I learned from the current Trump administration is that the information is so fucking ripe for abuse AND they don't even catch enough actual crooks that letting a few legit bad people slip through isn't going to bother me.
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And beer
Belgian craft beers are top notch.
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wow i didn't know belgium was based. I guess i was wrong when i thought they peaked with french fries
It's a fairytale town, isn't it? How's a fairytale town not somebody's fucking thing?How can all those canals and bridges and cobbled streets and those churches, all that beautiful fucking fairytale stuff, how can that not be somebody's fucking thing, eh?
Wait, wait. Better quote.
What's Belgium famous for? Chocolates and child abuse, and they only invented the chocolates to get to the kids.
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Yes! You are unique among the 3874720 fingerprints in our entire dataset.
If the website says that I’m unique in green font, it’s actually bad and should be red, isn’t it ?
Happened to me, too. Fuck!
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You already get the benefit of lower prices for digital products that have the same production cost regarless of where it is sold. I understand that your wages are lower, but I can not like paying a lot more for the same services/
Generally, you wouldn't see things like Netflix and HBO enter Latin America without ad supported versions.
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It's not about advertising. It's about spying on our online lives. Not the same thing.
Yeah but that's not what I was talking about. I too do all the necessary fiddling to try and reduce the amount of fingerprinting an advertiser can do to me. That said, I'm a social butterfly so I have every kind of major social media and chat app because I have to.
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IIRC there were hospitals in the US that violated HIPAA by accident because they used the Meta Pixel to aggregate useful information on their website, but which was also sending more information than they knew to Meta. So, it does “just happen”.
Meta is doing it knowingly though so….
If these laws came into place, you would ofc create a grace periode, resulting in løser punishments.
It will give corps a window to really check wtf they are doing, and take it seriously.
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