Mike Taylor 🦕 on Nostr: "However, we added the cookie banner because our legal auditors said we're at risk, ...
"However, we added the cookie banner because our legal auditors said we're at risk, better to have it."
This is why we can't have nice things.
Legal auditors have zero incentive to make things nice for users, or even to increase user trust in the service they're auditing. They incentive is simply to avoid laying themselves open to liability — so they will ALWAYS recommend whatever seems safest to them with no other criteria.
Published at
2026-03-19 08:02:02 UTCEvent JSON
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