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>>sschue+(OP)
EU gonna EU. You should be thankful. If they made a desktop app answering the cookie banner would rival applying for citizenship in complexity.

>>renewi+a61
You do know that all those sudden repairability and longer OS updates Samsung and Apple keep touting worldwide are due to EU regulations, right?

Easy battery and screen replacements, USB C on iPhones, 7 years of US updates, etc, all due to the EU.

>>oblio+oq1
Yeah, all sorts of pointless crap. 7 years of updates, that's the iPhone X? Yeah I couldn't care less. USB-C? Don't care. I use wireless charging. If we could lose all of that in exchange for losing cookie banners I would take it in a heartbeat.

In another couple of decades the EU will be an irrelevant market as their population becomes even poorer. Then we can finally be free of their nonsense. The only risk is that the Eastern European countries become more prosperous than the Western European ones and prop up their influence.