Indeed. Nor is GDPR about cookies at all. GDPR is about identifiable user profiles and information. A piece of paper with someone's name falls under the GDPR; a cookie that hides a shown alert doesn't.

Exactly.

People like the author are part of the problem. Blindly clicking consent is allowing site owners to bully you into consent. It works, so they keep doing it.

If you're going to blindly click anything it should be decline all.

I interpreted the comment thread as talking about the website being clearly Turkish, because that was what my first thought when I saw the Turkish text. It didn't even occur to me they could be talking about the archeological site, as you clearly interpreted it. Kind of interesting how the same sentence can mean multiple things, one being wrong and one being right.

Also kind of interesting to consider the relation between both meanings of site. It makes perfect sense, but I stopped considering that because website took on such a much larger meaning in my life than physical site.

They do. But a generic warning about locale-dependence doesn't really tell you that ASCII-strings will be broken. For nearly every purpose ASCII is the same in every locale. If you have a string that is guaranteed to be ASCII (like an enum constant is in most code styles), it's easy to think "not a problem here" and move on.

Note that the penalty for non-compliance will be forfeited to Bits of Freedom. It's not like a traffic fine that has to be paid to the government.

In Dutch this is called a "last onder dwangsom": an injuctive order enforced by a conditional fine.

As an addition, 5 million is a lot for BoF. At the end of 2024 their balance was a little over 1.8 million EUR. Even a single day's worth of coercive fine (100k EUR) would be meaningful to them.

Their annual report is online at https://2024.bitsoffreedom.nl/en/ for people who want to learn more.

But if you allow that, the third-party has your id and a list of ALL adult sites you visit. If that leaks it's even worse than a single site leaking your id.

> OECD's numbers for health expenditure per capita[1].

Interesting that the graphs use PPP, but that the age-adjusted graph still shows the richer OECD countries spend more than the poorer ones. I wonder what's up with that.

Interestingly Chrome 140.0.7339.51 on Android 16 blocks it with a net::ERR_CERT_REVOKED error.

I always thought Chrome didn't block them and that revocation was pretty much dead.

To clarify, https://revoked.badssl.com/ is the one being blocked. https://revoked-isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org/ shows just fine.

My org went for RTO two or three years ago. This year they've also started cutting locations from teams that are too distributed: you can either move or you can leave. There will still be a lot of people living on Teams, but a lot less, and mostly just management layers.

> the rare, tricky race conditions [...]. The rare ones show up maybe 1% of the time—they demand a debugger,

Interesting. I usually find those harder to debug with a debugger. Debuggers change the timing when stepping through, making the bug disappear. Do you have a cool trick for that? (Or a mundane trick, I'm not picky.)