• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    True, but it’s also a loss of access due to geographical location, which is the opposite of one of the original main tenets of the internet.

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      1 year ago

      One of the main tenets of the internet is you can run your site the way you want, but nobody has to visit it. Kind of like free speech, you can say what you want but nobody has to listen to it.

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        1 year ago

        Not if “the way you want” is by serving malware without giving the user a choice or even informing them that they’re agreeing to malware by entering. That’s all the EU law mandates: seeking informed consent.

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          1 year ago

          There is a difference between cookies (which are just strings of characters often used to keep you logged in) and actual malware executable code.

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            1 year ago

            There’s also a difference between session cookies, which are code to keep track of what you do on the site, and tracking cookies which are code that spies on everything you do online in order to monetize it. A lot of us consider the former benign and the latter malware that we want the option of avoiding.

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              1 year ago

              I think malware is software (executable) by definition though. Cookies are never executable, they are just data.

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                1 year ago

                Malware is anything that negatively affects your computer. Cookies tracking your every move to sell your information to a third party that then inundates you with unwanted ads every time you use the internet would qualify IMO.