Comment by roenxi
5 years ago
They're serving you a web-page regardless. It probably isn't the data as much as they don't want to run afoul of EU law.
Breaking the law is a generally considered a big mistake and regardless of the stereotyping about businesses they can be pretty timid when dealing with governments.
Sure, I have more respect for the ones that 451 it than for the ones that pretend (very obnoxiously) to be compliant.
> Breaking the law is a generally considered a big mistake
Except when it's about breaching the GDPR. In this case it's considered "business as usual" and Google and Facebook successfully get away with it.
But they are breaking the law.
"Accept/Ask me later" is in violation of the GDPR.