Repost from https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115992340469511552 with ALT text added.

@the_wub @jwildeboer the only sane path forward is a browser setting with those defaults. Doing this per website makes no sense. That's like having to agree to terms and conditions every time you enter a building.

@xavez @jwildeboer ...for the first time...

Once your preferences are saved then you don't need to go through the cookie consent rigmarole again.

Except I do as most of my searches are done in private browser windows opened per search.

The "do not track" initiative died a death because it relied on the co-operation of sites that would lose money by not tracking you.

Any browser based solution would still have to be backed by legislation like the cookie-consent laws in the EU.

@the_wub @jwildeboer of course, you solve this with laws and enforcement.

That said, the current implementation does not solve anything. Cookies are not the issue. Reselling data or using it for purposes other than the intended use (e.g. modelling user behaviour but then reselling it to meta so they can profile better to sell ads of which they don't share the revenue with you) is the real problem.

@xavez @jwildeboer While we are on the subject of Meta...

https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116006573358262232

@morre @jwildeboer And i respect that, because IT IS.

No further statement, exept part of Russia is also part of Europe, tho Russia has grown anti european.

@Dexruus Here’s the important fact. With introduction of the Euro, wars between countries with that currency become impossible as they cannot be financed. This simple fact is often forgotten but really important. @morre

@jwildeboer I have to disagree with mentioning Wero. Wero uses SEPA instant credit transfer, but it’s a system from the private sector.

@xavez
You can do telemetry completely without tracking cookies / cookie banners. See GoatCounter.

It losses some precission in the name of privacy (visits are bucketed by IP address and software identifier into rolling 8 hour intervals), but the resulting data is still very useful for answering “What are my users doing on my website?” (with click paths!), without deanonymizing any individuals.

Cookie banner sell the lie, that you somehow need to keep records on every individual for this. You don’t.
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@Photo55
I sew the last pic before the rest of the post and got confused why there is a but after “regulating banks”. (You almost cannot overregulate banks, they’ll always find another dumb loophole to seep their corrupting powers through.)
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@jwildeboer (2/2) Advice - I think you could use audio chat a bit more with a few here and decide who is "more real" and build on that instead of staying in text land for "social"...

Example chatroom :
https://meet.nadeko.net/chat123123 (no account / just browser needed):

You can even change the end of the link to any chatroom name you like.

Happy to chat to you via this easy link - #Jitsi is basically a #Zoom alternative - 3 clicks and in!
1min to start chatting without install or big corporation !

@jwildeboer Something is very telling from your 2 replies / comments to yourself.

While it's not "all your fault" or even 1 person's fault, the word "social" you added is in itself a bit of a clue to the fallacy (we're doing one-way mostly and in text format - all highly stripped of human voice / personality etc)

So while it's not great to get comments like you mention it is somewhat of a compliment to be read at least and human in this way to get such negative / weird things when popular.

@Dexruus @jwildeboer
if you just ignore the balkan, yes....

@mfru @budududuroiu @jwildeboer oh, it is not misleading. I just don't really agree with it...

@krist @mfru @jwildeboer that's fair

@jwildeboer Thanks for the ALT text.

Maybe we can encourage the EU Commission account over here and they can ALT text stuff for easier sharing.

@wiredfire @ahltorp @jwildeboer I disagree and wish you hadn't shown up here to piss on something I and most people I know consider a simple tangible benefit of EU democracy in action.

We know perfectly well the propensity of monopoly and oligarchic vendors to create unnecessarily proprietary chargers and to sell them for extortionate prices and generating future e-waste.

Half a billion EU citizens have billions of old chargers. Too many already.

@jwildeboer
May I suggest that you simply ignore them? These are usually folks who failed with about anything in their life and find solace only in badmouthing anything else. Because everything must be bad, which is the reason they failed so hard. It can't be their fault. It hast to be something else, for instance Brussels.

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wow love it

let's make us a EU - Earthy Union - now!!!