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		diggan on March 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Ap... Well, we're talking about a hypothetical law here, so we don't really know the amount... The low amounts for fines when it comes to big companies is a different problem that should also be fixed.

stqism on March 25, 2020 [–]

Often, the fines for breaking the law are factored in to the cost of choosing to do so in the first place.

This is justified, of course, because the gain for doing so vastly exceeds losses due to the fines.

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