It's a common industry pattern to overdo things and then get regulated.
take e.g german gas stations, they went from adjusting their prices occasionally (e.g. when the oil price changed) to price changes several times per day in order to gouge the most out of the customers. Now, they will get regulated and only be allowed to change their price once per day... they basically asked for it.
Same for international roaming fees in Europe, from insane to regulated..
Cookies were used to tracks people's shopping carts and that was fine, same for a site to recognize you. Nowadays they are used to identify and track you in global ad networks etc.. again, asking for it..
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websites had that coming for a long time.
It's a common industry pattern to overdo things and then get regulated.
take e.g german gas stations, they went from adjusting their prices occasionally (e.g. when the oil price changed) to price changes several times per day in order to gouge the most out of the customers. Now, they will get regulated and only be allowed to change their price once per day... they basically asked for it.
Same for international roaming fees in Europe, from insane to regulated..
Cookies were used to tracks people's shopping carts and that was fine, same for a site to recognize you. Nowadays they are used to identify and track you in global ad networks etc.. again, asking for it..
This is why we can't have nice things, abuse of something useful for ends undesirable to the masses leads to it getting banned for all uses.