Businesses should really stop complaining the consumer is the problem here. The businesses made this model and expected consumers to gladly accept it. Don't want people to consume your content for free? Make it a subscription or something. Can't get enough subscribers to be profitable? We're so so sorry...
Same with cookies. Don't want the mandatory-by-law cookie popups? Stop using cookies.
this is leeching on expense of people without adblocks who have to endure more ads thanks to people with adblocks, for the above mentioned information publisher to make the same money
Visit it and pay with your bandwidth and attention or rob the guy who does the work of income that helps him do this work. Your choice
Whether it is technically enforceable in your particular case may be the question. But historically, it has been enforced outside the EU.
As you live in the Bay Area - the CCPA and the CPRA, which are similar in many ways and seem to require an opt-out mechanism (e.g. if you operate a commercial website with >100k devices accessing it during a year).
Talk to a lawyer, don't take advice from strangers on the internet.
I disagree with this. Tencent WeChat targets the entire world, including people living in the EU. They do not follow GDPR.
Likewise, Facebook targets people living everywhere, including in China. They do not follow Chinese laws.
Hence, China sets up a firewall and blocks Facebook.
EU can set up a firewall too if they don't like something.
"Oh but EU doesn't do firewalls?" Not my problem. Tough luck. China, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, all did it, you can too if you have beef with foreign websites.
But no, I do not need to follow EU law just because EU users use my thing. It's on them to firewall it if they don't like my website.
> CCPA and the CPRA
This is fine. I live in California, I need to follow California law, and I can choose to live somewhere else if I don't like it. What I'm not okay with is some distant jurisdiction thinking they can make laws that I "need" to follow.
Why don't we have a browser flag that sends a request header telling the site our preference automatically so we can avoid these popups?
This causes all the stupid GDPR popup sites to not "remember" my preferences because they ironically need to use a cookie to store the preference of declining cookies, so they appear again each time because my browser doesn't store that decline cookie between sessions.
The law is (paraphrasing) "You must use cookies or similar to be evil without permission". Advertising companies decided that instead of not being evil, they'd annoy users into giving permission.