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		rank0 on Aug 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The EU's war on behavioral advertising > You can be for privacy and against survailance. Is this a typo? Of course you can they’re literally opposites. You’re performing mental gymnastics if you think that the EU is somehow “pro privacy” just because they created cookie banners via GDPR. State sponsored surveillance is FAR worse than corporate sponsored surveillance.

midasuni on Aug 26, 2023 [–]

The EU didn’t create those banners. HN doesn’t have such banners.

The companies tried to track you created those banners.

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