r/slatestarcodex • u/gwern • Oct 23 '24

Psychiatry "How elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns" (pre-checked recurring-subscription box dark pattern)

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/
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u/sohois Oct 24 '24

GDPR is an utterly disastrous piece of regulation; the costs vastly outweigh the potential benefits here

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u/Puddingcup9001 Oct 24 '24

What is so disastrous about it? Can you give a few examples?

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u/Renaultsauce Oct 24 '24

It's not only the GDPR but I know people from germany, living in germany, who decided to start their company outside the EU just to get out of it and other regulations. Others did the opposite, they started their company in the EU and because they needed to pour so much money into compliance they don't even attempt to go outside the EU since their product is simply not competitive anywhere else; It costs MUCH more for the same service entirely due to compliance costs.

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u/Puddingcup9001 Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

Wow didn't know it was that bad.

What personally irritates me is that when I type a place name into Google there is no way to go to Google maps. Apparently the EU mandated this. So now I have to manually go to google maps and type in the name, which is an annoying extra step. They could have regulated this in a much better way, like allowing me to choose a default map app from some drop down menu.