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[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

Repost from https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115992340469511552 with ALT text added. Unified chargers, free roaming, travel, study and work everywhere in the EU, simple bank transfers with SEPA and Wero. EU makes life better.

#ThanksEU

[johnrohde@helvede.net]

@jwildeboer EU is pretty cool and likely the most important thing post WWII Europe have ever done.
Perfect, F no, but a big step in the right direction.

[markwyner@mas.to]

@jwildeboer nice. I didn’t know this was how it worked over there. Except for the borders/rights, these things are not unlike being able to move around between states in the U.S.

I guess I’ve taken that for granted. Traveling across the country here requires almost no thought, unless you’re marginalized.

[xavez@me.dm]

@jwildeboer all we’ve got to do is fix the cookie thing and we’re golden 👌

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@xavez Which cookie thing? Just because your fav websites sell their online presence to the tracker and ad mafia who decided to block access until you agree to allow them and their 1482 partners in? The EU is to praise, not blame for that. Cookie banners are not an EU thing. My blog doesn’t ask because they are not needed.

[xavez@me.dm]

@jwildeboer you can’t possibly know but I understand all of that better than you might think.

It’s the implementation that’s the mess. Leaving this to millions of websites was a bad idea. It should have always been a browser preference. One exists and could have been adapted.

[xavez@me.dm]

@jwildeboer on top of that there really are legitimate benign reasons to track user behaviour and make improvements to websites and applications, that do require some form of cookies or persistent storage on the user’s device.

It’s too easy to wave the data brokers and tracking flag, because the cynical truth is that you don’t even need cookies to do that part.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@xavez@me.dm Thank you, stranger on the Fediverse, for insinuating that my 30+ years of experience, being deep in the trenches of how the internet and the web works means I „don’t possibly know“ how things work. Welcome to my blocklist!

[wsslmn@mastodon.nl]

@xavez @jwildeboer it's messed up because the sector failed to explain what cookies can do in a way that policy makers and politicians can comprehend and work with. Saving the advertising income from policy driven disruption was a larger concern, and now we are stuck with the banners (if you don't block them, run a pi-hole, and avoid advertising hell holes).

[xavez@me.dm]

@wsslmn @jwildeboer yep that’s a part of it for sure. That said if you’re going to pass any law that’s so important, shouldn’t you attempt to understand the thing you’re regulating at a slightly deeper level?

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@johnrohde @jwildeboer OK, thank you for that because it's important perspective that maybe this type of marketing is needed and works (I'm not a fan, it's just so... limp, lol! But I'm also not the target audience, I guess).

[djdog@social.tchncs.de]

@jwildeboer Norway and the UK have also EU Roaming.

[wiredfire@mstdn.social]

@jwildeboer I’m still yet to be convinced that forcing everything to USB-C charging was effective and didn’t generate a bunch of ewaste.

[wsslmn@mastodon.nl]

@xavez @jwildeboer yes, but if the experts from the sector don't inform you well, what else can there be done?

They wanted to keep the responsibility with the end user, and they succeeded. The same sector was very angry at the annoying banners, while this was also what they suggested to the policy makers.

Be very careful when you write down your wishes and send them to people who turn those whishes into policy!

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@wiredfire Looking at my big box of weird chargers that I probably have not used since many years and probably never will — not sure ;)

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@jwildeboer one charger works… bwahahahahaha…

What few USB C devices and cables I already have are already a tricky mess that has me completely fed up with it.

[harbeider@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer @xavez didn't write *that*, Blocklist Hero.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@mirabilos Some people just always have to be negative about everything because they still think that's how they get an audience. Welcome to my blocklist!

[saschawenger@troet.cafe]

@jwildeboer
This is the kind of posts I love, positive, constructive, clever, with humour, thanks

#thanks #danke

[xavez@me.dm]

@harbeider @jwildeboer indeed I did not 😅 not worth the energy…