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Comment Re:EU GDPR gaining fans outside of the EU. (Score 1) 43

And to answer your question: The best way is to ask your users.

Henry Ford's prospective customers said they wanted a faster horse. And if you ask your users how often you should be asking your users for feedback, they'll probably say never because asking interrupts their immediate task.

What's the GDPR-compliant way to inform users that people who decline to participate in a user survey risk losing access to features?

Comment Ford has lost its focus (Score 3, Insightful) 123

Not even remotely true if we succeed in reducing the CAFE standards

All of the automakers were ready, willing, and able to meet the emissions regulations well ahead of schedule

Emissions and CAFE are separate standards. CAFE relates to fuel economy. US automakers have been making light trucks instead of cars to exploit the looser CAFE standards on trucks. It's why Ford has lost its focus since April 2018.

Comment Pay or consent (Score 1) 48

If they could make money from paywalls, they'd have more paywalls.

Newspapers and Facebook are heading that way with "pay or consent" schemes in GDPR territories.

And many of us would welcome paywalls as a replacement for ads anyway.

I've noticed a lot of comments to Slashdot articles stating that they didn't read the featured article on account of having to buy a month's subscription just to read one article.

Comment Re:EU GDPR gaining fans outside of the EU. (Score 1) 43

Third, they explicitly list purposes like "required market analysis" and similar things that are certainly not required to provide the service to you.

What's the privacy-respecting way to determine demand among users for continuing to maintain a particular feature of a website or web application?

Comment Re:Alcohol producers are in trouble (Score 4, Informative) 104

Maybe. I live in Ontario, the world's largest buyer of alcohol, and all US alcohol imports have been stopped. Definitely having an effect, especially in Kentucky... no US bourbon being sold here.

It's been theorized that Canada's import decline has a lot to do with why Jim Beam, which has a hand in pretty much all bourbon distilling, is shutting down its main distillery in Kentucky for all of 2026.

Comment Re:Not new. (Score 1) 140

But recent years I often met people who said "I can not read a whole book"

Would this be more honest? "I enjoy reading short stories. However, given my life circumstance, a novella about as long as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine is the upper limit before work or household interruptions inevitably break my concentration."

Comment Re:Thank you California! (Score 1) 43

How would you recommend to fund writing and hosting a website if the website operator cannot sell "behavioral" ad impressions targeted to the individual viewer's inferred interests? I'm aware that it's possible to target an impression to the context of the document in which the ad appears. This is called "contextual" ad placement. However, advertisers are willing to pay three times as much for a behavioral impression than for an contextual impression. Banning publishers from selling behavioral impressions would lead to more countdown interstitials, more paywalls, and more websites disappearing from the Internet when their operators run out of money.

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