Three EU did update the law (or the courts did, maybe) to tackle some of the malicious compliance issues. That's why there's an "reject all"-type button now.

Originally many sites had a single "allow all", and many "reject each cookie individually" buttons -- like, hundreds of them.

"legitimate interest"

Sorry, but no -- rejected.

Same here. And for those annoying sites where I still have to click multiple buttons to opt out, I still opt out.

If I can't opt out, I leave the site.

The default should be that I'm opted out of everything -- get rid of the box, and get rid of all 3rd-party cookies and scripts.

But that'll never happen, alas (earwax).

Any time I see a "Xxx company is ending 32-bit support" in generally shocked that they were still supporting 32-bit systems...

I guess I'm also still shocked that we are all still using IPv4.

IT is a much slower industry than my brain wants it to be.

We already have a generation of people who don't think for themselves... It's too late!

"Let me just write a script to migrate 40,000 VMs to new hypervisors"

clickity-clickity-click

"And they're gone!"

when your President is a Climate-Change Denier? (And proud of it!)

....ohhh..... _that_ Python. :sad:

"... and when I saw the blob of... em... mayonnaise, 'cos that what was on my shoe, I thought it was perfect for..."

So long as it can be easily disabled.

I'm the EU there's never an issue cancelling. You don't have to go to the level of cancelling the direct debit, you just cancel your membership.

There's none of this making it difficult crap.

Even cookies, by law, have to have a one-button-reject-all.

It's likely didn't stop them when it came to the original training, or subsequent training, so why should they care now? /s ?

Tech ALWAYS fails.

Why wasn't there a backup procedure? Or, if it exists, why wasn't it implemented?

When I got my Pixel 9 Pro, Gemini was installed. Excitedly I tried it to see what improvements it had over Android Assistant.

It wasn't long before I switched back to AA 'cos Gemini couldn't handle some very basic tasks.

So unless they've made MASSIVE improvements to it, I'll stick with tried-and-mostly-trusted AA.

I'm not sure I want a "reasoning" AI trying to decide what "turn the lights off" means and getting it hopelessly wrong.

I don't need a complicated assistant. Simple, that works, and, more importantly, that I can trust will do what I want every time. I need to trust in its consistency. I shouldn't have to be second-guessing my assistant.

And I fear Gemini won't give me that level of trust.

Here our laws are more about protecting the citizens. LA Fitness would be suited by the EU itself if they tried that here.