Google is officially big enough that all the wolves want their cut.
Hopefully all those news website where you have to deselect 233733737 buttons will have a huge fine… Morons
i googled “how to opt out of google cookies” and the first result was a 5 step list from google themselves.
literally settings –> privacy –> cookies –> block all cookies
who are the boomers having trouble with this?
France has been so based lately. Is it the best pre-election campaign ever or what?
Google earns that in about two miliseconds. Put four zeroes behind it, then we’re talking. Until then this is just a populist move appealing to masses.
Yay!
Send the managers to substantial prison terms, fining them is just an expense
That is just cost of doing business.
Give us a fucking “reject all” button you god damn bastard of google ! It’s not the US here, we have rights !!
Now every other country should do the same please.
Are these the only companies that do this, or they just targeting foreign companies only?
Cue all the incoming bullshit from Alphabet and Meta about how they already giving users a choice and how unfair this ruling is…
Cookies is basically a “yes-no”-question (maybe a third “customize”-button for more control). That’s it and that is how out could be implemented. Everything else, every additional step is just designed to make it difficult and annoy some users into accepting cookies.
Hope they’ll fine those websites where it needs to “Process” your settings for 20 seconds next.
What does “prohibitively difficult” means in this case?
All the news I’ve heard about France has been incredibly based. Meanwhile in the US we have to click accept cookies on literally most websites
Who is this fine paid to? Is the first country calling dibs or can Germany fine them for exactly the same thing?
Based. We need to do the same over here.
thats one easy way to get some money
That’s just the cost of doing business for Google.
Oh no, now they only made 64.8 billion this quarter instead of 65
I am so happy to hear this. I always wondered why they have accept everything button but no accept nothing button together, instead they make you go to a second page and click 20 and in some cases more buttons to turn them off. I hope this gets implemented in other parts of EU too
Google: “I laugh at your puny fine”
Hello fellow “reject all cookies” gang members
That’s fine!
-Said Google grabbing another cookie
Based
I wish there was a conversion calculator for ‘average person’. So $170,000,000 = $. 32 for you. In other words Google might round it to 200 and say keep the change.
I bet the companies have long since factored such things into their running costs…
If the French don’t like our companies they can simply stop using them! Sick and tired of Europeans trying to swindle a quick buck out our companies. You don’t like Facebook? You don’t like Google? STOP using!
Go France!!
That’s cool and all but 170M is like pocket money for Google.
That’s a slap on the wrist, not a fine.
Seeing americans simp for multi-billion corporations in the corporations Is the funniest shit ever
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Meta is also been fined $68M
Google is officially big enough that all the wolves want their cut.
Hopefully all those news website where you have to deselect 233733737 buttons will have a huge fine… Morons
i googled “how to opt out of google cookies” and the first result was a 5 step list from google themselves.
literally settings –> privacy –> cookies –> block all cookies
who are the boomers having trouble with this?
France has been so based lately. Is it the best pre-election campaign ever or what?
Google earns that in about two miliseconds. Put four zeroes behind it, then we’re talking. Until then this is just a populist move appealing to masses.
Yay!
Send the managers to substantial prison terms, fining them is just an expense
That is just cost of doing business.
Give us a fucking “reject all” button you god damn bastard of google ! It’s not the US here, we have rights !!
Now every other country should do the same please.
Are these the only companies that do this, or they just targeting foreign companies only?
Cue all the incoming bullshit from Alphabet and Meta about how they already giving users a choice and how unfair this ruling is…
Cookies is basically a “yes-no”-question (maybe a third “customize”-button for more control). That’s it and that is how out could be implemented. Everything else, every additional step is just designed to make it difficult and annoy some users into accepting cookies.
Hope they’ll fine those websites where it needs to “Process” your settings for 20 seconds next.
What does “prohibitively difficult” means in this case?
All the news I’ve heard about France has been incredibly based. Meanwhile in the US we have to click accept cookies on literally most websites
Who is this fine paid to? Is the first country calling dibs or can Germany fine them for exactly the same thing?
Based. We need to do the same over here.
thats one easy way to get some money
That’s just the cost of doing business for Google.
Oh no, now they only made 64.8 billion this quarter instead of 65
I am so happy to hear this. I always wondered why they have accept everything button but no accept nothing button together, instead they make you go to a second page and click 20 and in some cases more buttons to turn them off. I hope this gets implemented in other parts of EU too
Google: “I laugh at your puny fine”
Hello fellow “reject all cookies” gang members
That’s fine!
-Said Google grabbing another cookie
Based
I wish there was a conversion calculator for ‘average person’. So $170,000,000 = $. 32 for you. In other words Google might round it to 200 and say keep the change.
I bet the companies have long since factored such things into their running costs…
If the French don’t like our companies they can simply stop using them! Sick and tired of Europeans trying to swindle a quick buck out our companies. You don’t like Facebook? You don’t like Google? STOP using!
Go France!!
That’s cool and all but 170M is like pocket money for Google.
That’s a slap on the wrist, not a fine.
Seeing americans simp for multi-billion corporations in the corporations Is the funniest shit ever