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0 pointsanoncake6y ago0 comments

> Legally irrelevant.

What is this, a court of law?

> Please tell us how, then. Preferably in a way unlike the whole GDPR cookie policy fiasco.

You don't get to blame the GDPR for those pointless pop-ups webmasters choose to display that are not even remotely compliant.

> Where you can impose your wishes on other's product choices? This is not a company usurping its monopoly, it's a niche product tweak.

Microsoft is the one which tries to impose its choices on others. In any case it wouldn't be me but us, we live in a democracy.

MS Office and Google search aren't niche products either.

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_glsb6y ago· 2 in thread

> What is this, a court of law?

You're talking about legislature (i.e. state stepping in). What did you think this was about? Crossfit?

> You don't get to blame the GDPR

Of course I do. Badly designed laws need to be blamed.

> MS Office and Google search aren't niche products either.

But ProPlus is. Either you are deliberately conflating the issue or you don't know what you are talking about.

> You're talking about legislature (i.e. state stepping in). What did you think this was about? Crossfit?

What the law currently happens to be is irrelevant to the question what it should be.

> Of course I do. Badly designed laws need to be blamed.

Please tell me how those pop-ups reflect a design flaw in the GDPR.

> But ProPlus is.

It's a version of Office.

_glsb6y ago

> What the law currently happens to be is irrelevant to the question what it should be.

I advise you to take a civics course. This is literally not true.

> Please tell me how those pop-ups reflect a design flaw in the GDPR.

In short: GDPR failed to correct the incentives and lead just to more boilerplate disclaimers. Some of GDPR is good, but this part definitely isn't.

> It's a version of Office.

Yeah... That's the definition of a niche product. Because, it's targeted at niche audience.

Honestly, I'm not interested of arguing with you anymore. When people start throwing platitudes against facts, that's the time I lose interest.

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