Like every other EU legislation. Achieves nothing but annoyance,
Really? Being able to return things bought online within 14 days, mandated 2 year warranty, no inter-country VAT those are far from annoying. Some of the consumer protection is over reach but to me it's worth it.
Mandatory 2 year warranties will likely cause prices to increase for EU customers. Enjoy paying more!
Really? Being able to return things bought online within 14 days, mandated 2 year warranty, no inter-country VAT those are far from annoying. Some of the consumer protection is over reach but to me it's worth it.
Mandatory 2 year warranties will likely cause prices to increase for EU customers. Enjoy paying more!
It's been 14 years since that directive came into force. Any price rise due to that (if there were any!) Haven't been noticed.
Nah. The single currency and free trade, for example, eliminate a lot of annoyance. I had to ship something to Norway last week, more hassle than shipping shipping inside the EU. I remember needing to change money when going on vacation, happy to be rid of that nonsense. Also national legislators are perfectly capable of souvereignly thinking up idiotic laws on their own. The "cookie law" is the result legislators needing to be seen as doing something to solve problems. Anything. If nothing smart is possible then it will just have to be something stupid. The EU is not the only legislator with that problem.
But the EU members don't all use the Euro. Several years ago after being in Euro friendly Italy, we went to England. Couldn't use our Euros in England, also the banks where we were wouldn't change our Euros to UK £ .
That's completely different and you know it. Please take your iBashing elsewhere. Good day, sir.
Not really. Not at all. It refers to privacy just as much as cookie protection. Developers can read referrers and ignore or falsify content therefrom.
And individuals can choose not to click on referral links, and can go to whatever website manually.
Systematically refusing to grant websites a referral credit when you are using that website for the convenience of their referrals is a rather twisted, selfish view on privacy.
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Several years ago after being in Euro friendly Italy, we went to England.
Couldn't use our Euros in England, also the banks where we were wouldn't change our Euros to UK £ .
Systematically refusing to grant websites a referral credit when you are using that website for the convenience of their referrals is a rather twisted, selfish view on privacy.
I hope that such controls don't get implemented.