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deburo on March 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech gia...

>If you are in the EU, try out surfing the web via a non EU IP once. It is an eye-opening experience. No cookie banners! Only Europeans have to deal with those.

I'm in Qc, Canada and I see them very often. Is it only checking for a US IP, and everything else gets the banner?

andrew_ on March 25, 2022 [–]

In the U.S. and I'd seen so many of them that I have an extension installed specifically to hide them while browsing.

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