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Why is American internal politics in my technology feed?
We learned about censorship efforts in the UK, EU, Australia and Canada, bud. None of us had a conniption over it.
Not on this community.
Why, as an American, do I have to navigate an internet full of pop ups designed to make sites GDPR compliant?
Because US advertisers lobbied hard for it. The original proposal was a single Do Not Track browser setting.
I really need to have a Cookie setting agent just to say, “don’t track me or use bare essential cookies;” it’s annoying. I just want them to use bare essentials, then let me opt in for features. But no, “sell, sell, sell” (our user data, whatever is similar to previous user searches, etc.) 🤢
There is a Firefox extension to do exactly that.
I have a news for you, this isn't just American internal politics. Surveillance capitalism is happening across the world. There are those pushing for chat control in the EU and UK is starting to do the same and contracted Palantir to manage the NHS data.
Yup, to tune their sales on your likes, preferences, and predicted wallet size.
I am well aware they have a presence here as well, but the article is discussing specific US Federal bills, not the market moves or the tech they would be using.
Imagine if each EU member state would be doing the same in this community.
they probably should, it's a good idea to keep people informed that their rights are being stripped away and they are slowly being enslaved by corpofascists.
You are aware there is a worldnews community right?
you are aware I know you're just trolling, right?
You know the expression: when America sneezes, everyone catches the cold.
The American tech giants, which are tied to the government because of military and surveillance contracts, despise EU regulations. The US Department of Defense strategy already deemed Europe to be a bigger threat than China and Russia. The American tech companies are also lobbying the EU to loosen the digital privacy laws and regulations. So it helps to keep tab once in a while of American politics.
They ruin everything, macro and micro
I am not American. I don't want to hear about your internal politics. I have already enough work activating for the EU ones.
"They". I am not american, by the grace of god.
Yeah, good for us
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