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[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…

[ketakater@social.vivaldi.net]

@jwildeboer to some extend, and for people in the EU.

Don't look at it's borders though....

[wiredfire@mstdn.social]

@jwildeboer Ha! Thing is we already had de facto universal charging in that regardless of if the device itself used micro USB or USB-C or lightening everything went into a charger with a USB-A port on it. Then gear started turning up with cables with USB-C at both ends and folk needed to buy new chargers when their USB-A ones were still perfectly functional. And I refuse to concede the often cited notion that carrying 2-3 wires instead of one (which all worked on a USB-A charger) was a problem 😅

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@xavez @jwildeboer Are you complaining about the regulation or the enforcement of the regulation?

Where in the regulation does it say ”you have to show annoying buttons to all your users and try to trick them into pressing the wrong button”?

[photo55@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer Also, regulating banks a lot is right on point.

[h3artbl33d@exquisite.social]

@xavez @jwildeboer

It’s the implementation that’s the mess

Adversarial compliance is.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@wiredfire @jwildeboer The really nice thing is that you don’t require everyone else to have 3 cables when you need to borrow their charger.

[nachtpfoetchen@eldritch.cafe]

@jwildeboer tbh i wish less people would die in the mediterranian and north afrika. i even would use ten different chargers to archive that.
They are two sides of the same medal, and i think it's important to see both.