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That first one should be punishable by flogging. Also the second one, but the first one is a very common strategy for opting you in to things you explicitly opted out of, and I'm pretty sure it's illegal. But, since no one ever enforces the law against mega corps, they're free to operate with impunity.
Excuse me, that else should be elseif( user.region != 'eu' )
elseif( user.region = 'eu' ){ SecretlyCollectData(user)}
Would be neat if Google got caught with a GDPR violation, the max fine is 4% of your global revenue, which for Google would be 12.2 billion.
So far the biggest has been Meta who was hit for 1.2 billion.
Google: "Haha, hahaha, no."
Else if (EU) {be annoying while collecting data;}
No then they just don't show you that they have your data...
That isn't real. It wouldn't pass peer review. Here is the actual code:
function GetCookieValue(x) {
return JSON.stringify(x);
}
user.cookies.agreed = Boolean(GetCookieValue(true));
if(!DarkPatternPopup()) {
// Make sure we respect the user choice
user.cookies.agreed = Boolean(GetCookieValue(false));
}
if(user.cookies.agreed) CollectData(user);
Don't need an if, just set the variable and collect the data. Saved you a jump instruction. The compiler is going to optimize it out anyway, but simpler code is better and some people forget the -O flag.
Yeah but the last requires you to explicitly distinguish between the two cases.
The only problem with the code I see is that the first 3 lines are not needed.