Ah. The Disney defense.

I happen to think it is, and indeed the GDPR sees it the same way. For EU residents. They have to delete your data if you ask them to, no special form requirements.

I may have forgotten my password, they may require additional personal data to let me log in again (which is why my PayPal account is still not deleted) their shitty page might be not loading in my browser of choice, or they recently decided I may not visit it with an ad blocker. It’s just a hoop to jump through to try and make people sigh and just not bother. In OP’s case they want to avoid additional third party tracking on the site, and that’s 100% valid.

If GDPR only protects people with EU passports, then it’s not universal rights - it’s privilege with a privacy logo.

And what do you think would happen if EU tried to enforce their laws in an interaction between two parties that both aren’t in the EU? If we did it, why shouldn’t any other country try and do the same? Better read up on Chinese law before you next do business with a company in, idk, France. Sound good?

It’s not about passports either. Move to Vienna or Prague and you may have better luck.

Apparently they did not delete their account because they don’t want to log in to do that.

Still, they obviously can’t know if the service in question would have treated an EU resident differently.

You have the most powerful military in the world and basically are your allies’ (former) protective power. There is no outside help coming because (among other reasons of course) nobody is physically able to help you.

Sadly, finding businesses and traffic data are 99% of the reason I open google maps. I have organic installed, but I’ve since found out that “I want to go somewhere I don’t know the way to but have found out the street address some other way, and I don’t care about the traffic in between” simply doesn’t happen.

Not if you only receive 40% of the wages too because the gains go to the capitalists.

Yeah, we should still tax it though.

That’s true with many regulations. The quiet part that they’re trying to avoid saying out loud is that behaving ethically and responsibly doesn’t earn them money.

Oh, so just like with the GDPR, cool.

Not to my computer they don’t.

I do want a TV that can access Netflix etc without another box. I just don’t want the surveillance that comes with it.

So far foreign companies don’t appear to be eating the cost. So the impact to their competitiveness seems to not be high enough to force them. It’s likely to stay that way.

It’s important to understand that if you place tariffs on all imports of a certain good, you also incentivize domestic manufacturers to increase their prices to just below those of the taxed imports, at least as long as domestic supply is lower than domestic demand (so they can expect to sell all they have anyway).

Better. We bought the airport. Google was paid to pave the runway and maintain it for a couple years after. And now they try to dictate that only planes they approve may start and land.

and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that

The funniest bit was when they repeatedly painted over a mural that cited the insult in the dark of the night.

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They have not been declared illegal (yet). The lower court just has to consider additional aspects according to the BGH and may possibly come to a different decision. In any case this only applies to adblock plus for now.

Also, slave labor.

The closest one to me is about 1km, I walk there if I don’t have to get too much stuff. 3km? I don’t know. In nice weather maybe, if I’m not in a hurry.

If you want to blow the whistle on somebody and wonder if the Guardian is trustworthy I suggest you ask Julian Assange.