>

Where would this money go?
Meanwhile every other big company is still data mining, because there are still companies paying for the data. >

I remember back in like 2000 data mining was considered spyware.
Then along came google and integrated spyware into the "cool new software" that everyone wanted. 
Then people stopped caring.
Although maybe with all these data breaches, and the failure of "smart home" garbage by google and amazon, maybe people are starting to say enough.
Soon enough Im sure one of these tech companies will partner with home builders to integrate all its crap into the build so you have no choice. >

I used to have a rotation of family and friends asking me to clean their computers of this crap. I firmly believe that once they figured out how to streamline the code so that it didn't cause performance issues, that was when people stopped caring. >

OH soooo did I.
Used to piss me off, it all seemed so simple to me. If something prompts you to download out of the blue, DON"T!
Noone would ever listen. The waterfall desktops and stupid emoji's everywhere were enough of a carrot for them to sacrifice performance.
Its downright scary now. Google seems to work fine enough even though its one big data mining rig, whereas facebook always felt sluggish to the point you could "feel" like you were being tracked. >

€60 million is a rounding error for Microsoft lol >

It's about 3-4% of what Microsoft is worth (1,68 billion euro)
Edit: Whoops! The word "trillion" in english is "biljon" in swedish. And my google page is in swedish. I mistook the spelling. The comment below is correct.
Edit 2: Also, HOLY PIROGI 1,78 trillion dollars?! >

Microsoft Market capitalization
1,78 trillion USD
so 60 million USD is 0.003370786% of Microsoft's market cap. I am sure this will hurt big time.
edit: OP made an oops. >

My bad, see my edit. >

I figured something like that :D english "trillion" is "billionen" in german. Common mistake :) >

"PUT THE COOKIE DOWN!" >

I can't Arnold, it's Christmas >

*France impose a small cost of business on Microsoft for imposing ads in cookies >

Can we have future cookie related punishments involve all executives baking cookies for years on end to provide all affected with as many cookies as they placed? >

Big deal, just a cost of doing business.
Simple symbolism, nothing more. >

Microsoft laughs because they made 300 million on the data they got from them >

Inmagine in 2028, fines will be responsible for 20% of EU gdp lmao >

€60 million? can you make it higher next time, like billions, so they will feel the pain >

Doubt that even cut into profits. They are most likely still making net gain even with the fine. As in even if they kept doing it the ads fully cover it and then some.
In some cases it's actually cheaper to pay fines. Some businesses did the same thing the keep their business working. Pay fines and repeat paying fines or be forced put of business because it was going to cut into revenue to much to quit doing what they fines them for. >

That's not the end of the fines, the amount will continue to escalate until Microsoft complies. At some point Microsoft will comply, it may take awhile to get there. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 55%. (I'm a bot)


France's privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros for foisting advertising cookies on users.
In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National Commission for Technology and Freedoms said Microsoft's search engine Bing had not set up a system allowing users to refuse cookies as simply as accepting them.
The French regulator said that after investigations it found that "When users visited this site, cookies were deposited on their terminal without their consent, while these cookies were used, among others, for advertising purposes."


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In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National Commission for Technology and Freedoms said Microsoft's search engine Bing had not set up a system allowing users to refuse cookies as simply as accepting them.

Holy shit this works out to like 10 million per user >

Perhaps if they would had included some milk as well the fine would have been more manageable. >

It might be better to change tactics and focus the fines on the ones buying the data. >

Who gets all these fines in the end, where does that money go? >

The government. It might go towards something specific, or just thrown in the general budget to be dispersed as needed. >

Lol 60 million? Microsoft will shrug that off. Might not even notice it. >

Wow 60 whole million. That’ll teach ‘em >

This is the problem, that's just a slap on the wrist. Companies like Microsoft treat such fines as small, occasional payment for exemption from laws. >

Its a "crime" worthy of a slap on the wrist though, how are them sending cookies to your browser causing immense social harm justifying a for example 10 billion dollar fine (the amount of dollars needed to actually make Microsoft notice). >

How is it dangerous? Almost every website uses them and they cause no harm to my device nor have I ever been physically harmed by them either. >

If only our (us) government would do this. >

US can do better. >

That's less than Microsoft earns in a single day. It's about 11% of what they earned daily in 2022. Those fines do not hurt big companies. Make them pay a percentage of their earnings, so it will sting at least a little >


That's less than Microsoft earns in a single day.

In France?