They’d probably have to outsource it. It’d be very expensive hiring thousands of people to do it in Europe full time and they have to be native Russian/hungarian speakers to not get immediately caught. They’d have to be connected to the pulse of the local culture.
Popular posts on Twitter, Facebook etc have tens of thousands of likes and comments. It’d be a major operation to do it and might not push the needle.
The scale of the Russian one caught in the US in 2016 was pretty small. They were spent about $400k on FB/twitter while the campaigns spent about $2 billion and PACs spent $4 billion (about 15,000x more).
It's evident that people use bicycles in Montreal -- TFA itself attests this.
But if your point is that North American cities all tend to have the same downtown/suburban contrasts, you are quite right.
People who live $Downtown usually have walkable neighbourhoods and perhaps even access to underground transit. People who live outside the centre of the city mostly end up depending on a private vehicle.
Bicycles are part of the mobility culture in Montreal. But Car Cancer has the same effect everywhere.
They do. Also people who use bicycles in Montreal are disproportionately males and mostly of the certain age group. That's very apparent if you stay for ~10 minutes near Grande Bibliothèque for example or any other relatively busy piste cyclable.
If you call it a 'mobility culture' it a very niche one. Bicycling is a thing for very specific demographics in Montreal in comparison with Amsterdam and even with Eastern European cities.
Interestingly that high schoolers are not biking that much in Montreal, again in comparison. Biking to school was/is an exception where I live(d) in Montreal, i.e. Le Sud-Ouest, NDG.
> If you call it a 'mobility culture' it a very niche one.
And yet it is relatively successful in Montreal (as TFA says). If we are completely honest, bicycling could be called a niche activity in most of North America.
> Bicycling is a thing for very specific demographics in Montreal in comparison with Amsterdam and even with Eastern European cities.
For students, for example.
I did say, "Bicycling is part of the mobility culture of Montreal". I did not claim more, and I also said that it's a controversial topic. On the positive side, Bixi has been a relative success compared to other Canadian cities.[1]
(You know Bixi, so I'll add a link for others to read.)
FTA: “Under the new proposal, some “non-risk” cookies won’t trigger pop-ups at all, and users would be able to control others from central browser controls that apply to websites broadly.”
Implied consent is valid for most functionality, just not selling peoples tracking data or giving it to a third party who could.
Its entirely possible to have no pop-up.
Someone once told me they wanted one anyway because it made the site seem more legitimate than if I removed it (the only thing I would have needed to change was the embedded video from youtube and I could have dropped the popup. Oh well).
Look at what YT loads in terms of tracking, when opening a page with an embedded YT video - even if you do not play that.
Or install something like pi-hole and watch how many analytics calls to Adobe Analytics the Adible app is sending out. Even if just idle in the background. Given the fact that you pay Adobe by the server call, Audible clearly must earn a shitload of money, if they can burn tracking calls like this.
If you are on a Mac, try Little Snitch and see where your data is going while surfing the net. No wonder in the US there are companies, that can sell you a clear image of all relevant data on nearly any person to enable algorithmic wage discrimination [1].
I know, that industry is trying to push EU further and further towards less consumer protections. But we have a great example of what that means for workers, consumers and all of us in the US.
So anywhere there is a YouTube embed we instead display a static thumbnail with 2 inline buttons underneath. 1 button to accept cookies and then load the embed and 1 button to view the video directly on YouTube in a new tab.
It works nicely and also pushed us to switch most of our videos to being first party hosted instead of YouTube.
arguably if there was a browser setting for this the current GDPR would require you to respect that setting. But that's arguably, it would still need to adjudicated.
My conclusion would be that under the current GDPR that if someone had the browser setting on, if a company did not respect that setting and kept private data, that they could be reported for GDPR violations and then the issue could be adjudicated, i.e that the courts would then decide if in fact GDPR violations occur by not following that browser setting.
Secondary conclusion - it might be more beneficial if one just contacted the EDPB and said since this browser setting exists and nobody is using it please issue a ruling if the browser setting must be followed, set it to go into effect by this date giving people time to implement it, and if they agreed the browser setting would be adequate to represent your GDPR wishes they might also conclude that it would be an onerous process to make you go through a GDPR acceptance if it were turned on, howe ver as this article is saying that they are "scaling back" the GDPR that would seem to be dead in the water, which is why I said under "the current GDPR".
In the absence of any explicit consent, no-consent is always assumed by the GDPR. The absence of a DNT header definitely doesn't count as consent, so that header is kind of useless, since the GDPR basically requires every request to be handled as if it has a DNT header.
A pre-existing statement of non-consent doesn't stop anyone from asking whether the user might want to consent now. So it is not legally required to not show a cookie dialog when the DNT header is set, which would be the only real purpose of the DNT header, but legislating such a thing, would be incompatible with the other laws. It would basically forbid anyone from asking for any consent, that's kind of stupid.
The GDPR requires the consent to be given fully informed and without any repercussions on non-consent. So you can't restrict any functionality when non-consenting users, and you can also not say "consent or pay a fee". Also non-consenting must be as easy as consenting and must be revocable at every time. So a lot of "cookie-dialogs" are simply non-compliant with the GDPR.
What would be useful is a "Track me" header, but the consent must be given with an understanding to the exact details of what data is stored, so this header would need to tell what exactly it consents to. But no one would turn it on, so why would anyone waste the effort to implement such a thing in the browser and web applications?
I have never denied helm is a mistake that people refuse to stop using. I quite think of Helm as the same as Ansible. Helm is only nice when you consume packages written by others.
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