Thanks EU

Well NPR website is pretty nice like this.

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THANKS EU

Most of the shit in most websites are useless. I have enabled first party CSS and images by default in Umatrix and if a site doesn't work then, I don't even bother

>No banners
>No images
>Text only
>Final destination

HAHAHAHAHA
right as I was going to give and and buy a new smartphone this happens and gives my old device new life since it can actually LOAD webpages again
Thanks EU

>>No banners
>>No images
>>Text only
>>Final destination
Awww... This is awful. All the websites look dull and boring now

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>Only trap videos
>prostate orgasm

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is there some new EU law mandating this?

because that would be FUCKING GLORIOUS

Mandating plaintext sites? No.

And why should websites comply with these new EU laws?

Absolutely based.

Itll only be big sites but since the web is so centralised now....

Mandating the option for plain text is a great idea. Keyword being "option"

Yes perfect

stroustrup.com/

On the other hand, I just ran into this today when clicking a link on HN.

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Wait.
I can FINALLY use my console browsers without problems?
Fucking thank you, EU!

I don't have many consoles but I've never had problems with my Wii U of all things so I don't see why this matters

What even is there besides Lynx?

imagine being this new

The absolute state of American “choice”.

My 3DS browser is shit. Same with my Kindle browser.

w3m.

>Huge and ugly title bar.
Is that gnome?

BASED EU

why ill have u know ive been here since 2006, sonny jim
how bout u have a little respekt 4 ur elders

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Because they want to operate in EU.

FREUDE SCHÖNER GÖTTERFUNKEN

WTF

CANCEL BREXIT NAO!

>t.toddler
>waah, now I have to read stuff instead of just reading the flashy headlines and look at the images.

A text version of websites, would that be the very cheapest way of enforcing gdpr on your company? If they don’t want to serve eu states then it would be up to them.

my thoughts exactly, yurofriend

youtube.com/watch?v=oWGZdYNpaSo

Worried it will ruin your job prospects, Pajeet?

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>this kills tha pajeet webdev
glorious

Holy fuck, this is comfy as hell.

That's cool, and I support GDPR, but why are you going to NPR ain the first place? It's part of the state run fake news media complex.

oh yeah. lets all get our news from Jow Forums

based

This is like a dream come true. All I ever wanted from the internet.

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So the GDPR essentially forces companies to do business that they cannot make money off of.

They just can't do easy business with your private information or take full control of personal information.

It still allows doing a lot of business. Same as you can still run companies after slavery is gone in most places.

If your business model is spying on people and selling the resultant data to admen, then its a good thing if you're put out of business.

So you're still supposed to provide services even when providing those services would make you no money because you can't collect data... So the GDPR allows for companies to be forced to lose money.

I mean, I agree with you 100%. I'm just not comfortable with a state dictating that a private business must provide services to someone who will provide no value to that business.

>So you're still supposed to provide services even when providing those services would make you no money
You can opt to not provide services.

Did you know business method patents, software patents, copyright, accounting/business practice laws and a whole lot more ALSO force businesses to not do certain things, but it doesn't even help EVERYONE, while the GPDR essentially does help everyone?

Did you know democratic society makes the rules it its interest and that there is no need to enable or tolerate exploitative asshole business models like selling private data in secret or holding people's data hostage?

Fucking rad!

They should make a js-less plaintext option everywhere mandatory

Well I mean, if a store puts out a money-losing item as a loss leader, and I go in and buy only the loss leader and nothing else, I'm not providing value to the business. But they have to sell me the item even though they lose money on it, because they advertised it for that price. Their finances are their problem.

Anyway if the goal is to extinguish the ad-driven business model then it doesn't really matter whether you prohibit it directly, or just put in place a rule that makes you unable to make money doing that.

Literally the guy I originally replied to () said you're supposed to continue offering services to users who choose not to opt-in. Is this a stipulation in the GDPR or isn't it?

This triggers lolbertardians

I think it is, but I can't point you at the correct legalese.

This is just a shitty way of protesting. They had more than enough time to do all of that.

Thank you based EU
First all the companies that stored my data are coming out of the woodwork and begging me to let them keep my data on their servers, and now there's gonna be JS-free versions of sites too!

Damn son

I love that all web developers was shown the fucking door as a literal unformatted text document is better than whatever masturbation they used to do.

THANK YOU

JESUS CHRIST THE DAY CAME WHEN I CAN READ TWO LINES OF TEXT WITHOUT THE NEED TO SCROLL THROUGH THE LAYERS OF BULLSHIT

THANK YOU EU

I didn't know websites were publicly owned

Its is your machine,your computer.
Its is YOUR choice how to render the page on YOUR machine.

Feels to me like virtually everyone bothered by this is an US citizen & everyone else was like "good fucking idea".

If it helps you cope, just consider the GPDR as getting as a copyright to your own direct private data that isn't easily transferred with just an EULA or some shitty trick like that and that has a bunch of rules that are a variant on copyright.

Most aren't. What does it matter?

not your narrative

That is the point. The state shouldn't force websites to do anything.

it doesn't force what they do
it forces what they can't do, which means less work for the website owner

There's no point arguing this with them. Europeans love forcing businesses to do things. It's literally in their blood.

They are not forcing anything.
Your site can not offer a text version and people will be notified about it.
The person will then pick if he will stay and get profiled by google ad sense or look for the content on another site.

>EU: "We give people choice to not have e their data mined"
>US: "Socialist scum! How dare you restrict corporations!?"

I find this amusing.

There's no point arguing this with them. Americans love forcing people to do things. It's literally in their blood.

>I find this amusing.
Me too. Also, it's extra ironical, that this here happens on a
>muh GNU!
>muh evil cooperations!!
board.

To be fair, we get this here too:

>GNU is commie shit and the contrary of freedom
>BSD is the truly free license

Personally, I think that GNU software is bloated shit and the licence is too restrictive.to the people that may use it.

Is there a plugin to auto-select plaintext?

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>the state should just let private companies violate their citizen's privacy and personal data

Vivaldi has a function called "reader mode" which is essentially that.

Yeah I don't understand why anyone at all is bothered by this except maybe webdevs or people who make a living selling data. There are laws that make businesses do things they dont want to all the time and there is not much of a complaint and most of those laws are beneficial for the entire society.

"Civil rights laws" and "Americans with disabilities act" are perfect examples of this, you can't deny service to people based on protected classes and you have to provide your business in such a way that it allows a great number of people (mobile or disabled) a lot of these laws made buildings safer. GDPR is a good law even if to complex to deal with at the moment.

how come I'm learning this on fucking Jow Forums and none of the mainstream news in my european country even talk about it ?

Are you in US?
This is EU only.

left is the npr page from above in the "text only" mode they offer and the regular page with reader mode.
I haven't configured it, but that's what it looks like by default. Takes background/foreground color and font from your settings.

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You should get your alzheimer's checked out

> So the GDPR allows for companies to be forced to lose money.
Nah - if they can't make money under GDPR they don't have to do business. The US market is pretty huge, and arguably easier to work in since it's all one language and culture.

What they can't do is do business but only if customers agree to be exploited. That's like making a business around indentured slavery in a country that allows it and then trying to go to a country that doesn't and say "you have to sign a waiver to do business with us", and the country just says "no, that's not allowed, waiver or not". The company should probably close its branch in that country, instead of losing money.

>The company should probably close its branch in that country,
You mean complain to the government that the country is full of commies and then the CIA overthrows the government for you. Free market, bitch.

>"Civil rights laws" and "Americans with disabilities act" are perfect examples of this, you can't deny service to people based on protected classes and you have to provide your business in such a way that it allows a great number of people (mobile or disabled) a lot of these laws made buildings safer.

But it also made crime skyrocket.

Failure to comply gets you a fine up to €20 mil or 4% of your annual revenue, whichever is higher.

>GDPR is a good law even if to complex to deal with at the moment.
IMO, this is a burger maymay.

You just need to prepare a bunch of DB queries or such to extract or delete personal information, provide a contact address for handling these requests, and migrate things to privacy-by-default (you may get warned about the last or something if you're a bit slow, probably no biggie).

You'd even already have a lot of this if you could be arsed to data kraken private data, obviously you did SOME stuff with it, and it's not like data associated with accounts or persons is completely free-floating anywhere.

If you never collected personal data, you're basically already fine.

Didnt they send her to jail for this?

>the mainstream news in my european country
>my european country
>european country
>european
>euro
>eu

Niggers made crime skyrocket, not the laws.

your point?
Mine was that this is only for US sites serving content in EU and not applicable to US sites serving content in USA.

what the fuck are you talking about? crime in the united states of school shootings is the lowest it has been in decades.

following you american retarded logic govs should let the corporations make a business out of racketing and killing. It's a free economy after all.

The EU has many problems but GDPR is good I'll give them that.

I think she disappeared before they could get to her.

My point is that none of my country's news media talk about it and yes I'm in the EU.
However is this only applicable to US sites serving content in the EU, or any site serving content in the EU?