GDPR already mandates that "Refuse non essential" button should be the same size and prominence than the "Accept all" button, every website around the globe does not care (apart from major players like Google, Apple or Amazon) and national data protection authorities absolutely do not care.
We already had one attempt with "Do not track" header, nobody was willing to commit to it because it impaired business. Same would go with OP proposal.
Websites are forcing this banner on us because they are greedy morons that would rather drain our data for money than incite us to pay for their work.
Well, in a way yes. During an election day and the day before, you are not allowed to push official communication (ie a political party can tell you "Go vote" but not "Go vote for us because we will put a stop to immigration") be it via a website, email, mail, etc. See https://presidentielle2022.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/l-elec.... So a sponsored post from a political party appearing in your timeline would be an issue due to the platform if it ignores these rules.
I have a Brother DCP L2530DW: black and white laster, wi-fi, with scanner. Works perfectly for my use case (scanning invoices, printing tickets and mail), no need for a specific app be it on Android, Windows or Linux.
I'm only using the Brother Windows app for scanning purposes, as the OCR works well for my needs.
It's been 2.5 years, no issues whatsoever, just needed one toner change after a while.
I've recently bought the same one. Only thing that surprised me was the double-line dot-matrix LCD from ~30 years ago. In terms of usability this isn't great (entering the WiFi password was no fun), but most of the time it's used with a second device anyway.
This is their strongest point. I still remember being able to install Microsoft Money 99 on a brand new Windows 10 for my uncle, without much difficulties.
Yeah, there are lots of places selling DRM free, lossless music. However, between the lot of them they fall far short of comprehensive coverage and I frequently have to buy and rip CDs to get the music I want.
And occasionally you run into weird issues like where all online offerings are missing the pre-gap material from the CD, i.e. the bits between the tracks that are shown with a negative timestamp and which are only played when you play the disc straight through without hopping between different tracks.
Plus liner notes are often omitted online, and occasionally that, too, is a little bit of a shame, even if the main thing is of course the music itself.
French here: I think the conclusion is flawed. Many operators won't simplify the life of the EU citizen, per the article itself:
> Then there is ticketing. Because systems are incompatible, only a few agencies sell rail tickets across the entire continent. As for refunds, operators are responsible only for the portion of the trip on their own trains.
So if your DB train to Frankfurt is late to your french TGV to Strasbourg, then your TGV won't be compensated. And you'll have to buy a new ticket.
Some guys tried their hands to be a European train ticket reseller (Captain Train, now owned by Trainline and way less effective than it was before), but it is not an easy feat.
That's a political issue, not a technical one. And one that can be solved with political will. A decade ago, I would not have been so optimistic, but these days, even politicians are talking about the necessity of transcontinental rail routes.
I've heard that there was some sort of a standard being developed on the EU level, but it basically drowns in bureaucracy, and the API calls are effectively free-for-all key-value objects where everyone can implement them as they see fit.
As much of a cynic I can be, I believe that if there's a supra-national organism capable of addressing such a problem as cross-country rail coordination, it's the EU. As many ills there are in the banking system in the EU, transferring money even across countries between individuals is a much more seamless experience than in other places, in large part, if not entirely, thanks to EU legislation. Things like abolition of roaming fees is another example.
You can of course point at the fake "bendy bananas" UK tabloid bullshit pushed by the likes of their current PM for easy laughs, or at the cookie banners prevalent on every site that collects more than a service level log of visitors to be skeptical, but I still think improving the situation of rail in Europe can be done in reasonable ways.
> Some guys tried their hands to be a European train ticket reseller (Captain Train, now owned by Trainline and way less effective than it was before), but it is not an easy feat.
As a European resident, you need to use Interrail, which in turn doesn't cover journeys in your home country unless you buy the more expensive Global pass, and even that only covers one single return journey in your home country.
If you want to do some more extensive train travelling in your holidays, they can certainly be worth it, but for a simple there-and-back-again journey those passes tend to be somewhat on the pricey side and I wouldn't view them as a satisfactory alternative to real through-ticketing.
> a simple there-and-back-again journey those passes tend to be somewhat on the pricey side
A simple there-and-back-again journey should easily be able to be planed ahead, which usually gives the most affordable ticket choices. Many countries even offer weekend passes for those needs, tho they will not always cover all and everything, particularly not more exotic privatized public transport.
But on regular there and back again tickets, the pricing ranges there can be extreme; As long as you are willing to book some days in advance and stick to a specific connection and specific trains. Savings on that directly translate to international routes, and those savings are usually quite extreme.
Yes, but then you're back again with the original problem, i.e. that there's often no through-ticketing available, especially if you need to make connections on both sides of the border. E.g. while the DB–SNCF cooperation means that both companies will sell tickets for the direct trains between France and Germany, at least online DB doesn't sell through-tickets involving a connection in France, and SNCF likewise doesn't sell tickets involving a change of trains in Germany.
GDPR already mandates that "Refuse non essential" button should be the same size and prominence than the "Accept all" button, every website around the globe does not care (apart from major players like Google, Apple or Amazon) and national data protection authorities absolutely do not care.
We already had one attempt with "Do not track" header, nobody was willing to commit to it because it impaired business. Same would go with OP proposal.
Websites are forcing this banner on us because they are greedy morons that would rather drain our data for money than incite us to pay for their work.