<story><title>TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-eu/tiktok-hit-with-consumer-law-breaches-complaints-across-europe-idUSKBN2AG0S8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>j1elo</author><text>Say there is this new law that forbids to smoke inside public places (read: restaurants, bars, pubs). For the sake of the metaphor, say these places received some benefit from tobacco companies from having people smoke, so naturally they react to this law by remembering in the most annoying ways how you cannot smoke inside &lt;i&gt;because of&lt;/i&gt; those pesky lawmakers (and not because people really voted in favor of less smoking in public places). For example, by creating smoke-friendly spaces where allowed, leaving less and more cluttered space for the smoke-free tables; and giving priority to the orders that come from smoker areas.&lt;p&gt;This is the cookie modal. It&amp;#x27;s the pages that show obtuse cookie modals the ones choosing to follow an aggressive anti-user approach. The fact that seemingly ALL of them are aggressive or use obscure techniques only shows how ingrained this smoking problem was all around.&lt;p&gt;EDIT -- the thing about this comparison is that those things happened when they implemented the anti-smoking laws in my country. You would see smoke-preferential areas, or in most places which didn&amp;#x27;t make the cut to have one, customers were all angry because they weren&amp;#x27;t able to smoke a cigarette after their lunch. But give it time, and years later most if not all restaurants and customers have accepted the new situation, offering an overall better experience for everybody involved. And I think that&amp;#x27;s what will eventually happen with the cookie law now that the GDPR has made more obvious and annoying the whole process.</text></comment>
<story><title>TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-eu/tiktok-hit-with-consumer-law-breaches-complaints-across-europe-idUSKBN2AG0S8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>I recently spoke with an older brother of a young man, about 13, who is heavily addicted to TikTok. His brother told me that he has been skipping school to stay on his phone, and that when his phone is taken away, he flies into a screaming rage, and runs down the street barefoot.</text></comment>