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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.