As for hundreds other useless regulations that bog us down.
For example, compare the warranty process with Apple and with any of the other laptop companies. If regulations worked you wouldn't even consider warranty to be a good selling point.
Still I've been burned by warranties services so many times, threatened to report, reported to consumer report and I got nothing out of it.
I don't even consider it. I just buy crap I'll try to fix myself if it breaks or I buy from a reputable company.
What are the regulations doing for us then?
How many companies using dark patterns in their EU imposed cookie banners have been fined?
Apple has been sued multiple times in the EU because of onerous warranty practices and lost. Obviously their working warranty doesn't work so great.
There's at least one website tracking GDPR fines. It's gonna take a while given that everyone is illegitimately collecting data on their visitors/customers.
The fact that, after being sued once and doing nothing to fix it, then being sued again, for the same thing, a company is still solvent, is evidence against regulation being effective. If the regulation was effective, they'd either shape up or be bankrupted by fines.
As for hundreds other useless regulations that bog us down.
For example, compare the warranty process with Apple and with any of the other laptop companies. If regulations worked you wouldn't even consider warranty to be a good selling point.
Still I've been burned by warranties services so many times, threatened to report, reported to consumer report and I got nothing out of it. I don't even consider it. I just buy crap I'll try to fix myself if it breaks or I buy from a reputable company.
What are the regulations doing for us then?
How many companies using dark patterns in their EU imposed cookie banners have been fined?