Council's 18 June position removes Article 88b, blocking automated consent for 450 million EU users. Now the European Parliament vote is the only path forward.
  • copacetic@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Puh, this took me a while to understand, so I’ll try to summarize:

    1. Big Tech likes to use cookie banners to annoy people to consent to tracking
    2. EU proposals says they must accept a machine-readable opt-out as well
    3. Google lobbies via countries to remove that part from the proposal
    4. It’s up to the EU parliament now
    • subarctictundra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      That’s a shame; this would have made browsing the web so much nicer.

      Also, Even if the EP does manage to force it to be kept in, it’s disconcerting that the EC is so susceptible to being lobbied in the first place (just like was the case with Stop Killing Games). That should be the main story here, and the main thing Parliament focuses on before it gets taken over by big money as well.