I’d understand that if it happened in one maybe two countries, but this happened across multiple countries where most people don’t condone the actions of Isreal. I’m not going just believe that some kind of a perfect storm gave Isreal the most televotes.
People who oppose Israel’s participation didn’t watch and didn’t vote.
Why would people not watch? Do you think Israel has such a huge influence on people that they’d outright ignore watching the show? I would argue that’s not a factor because there were people in the arena who booed Israel. They paid money to see it live. I didn’t like Israel participating, I still watched it because Eurovision is not about Israel.
Even if they did vote, their votes were spread across dozens of other candidates.
That’s a roundabout way of saying you think Israel’s song was popular among people. I’m supposed to believe Netherlands, who just had a massive protest about Israel, gave maximum points to Israel? Norway, who is known to be pretty anti-Israel, gave almost max points to Israel? Same with France, UK etc. Countries that have polls showing the majority being against what Israel is doing turn around and give max (or close to max) points to Israel? How? Why?
My bad. For some reason I associate all the consent pop-ups with GDPR as I don’t remember any pop-ups prior to GDPR.
That’s also not entirely correct.
you’ve never had to ask for permission to store cookies that are required for your site to work
You don’t need to ask permission for cookies that are strictly necessary for your site to work. They can contain personally identifiable information (PII) but only to the extent that is strictly required for the functionality to work. If your “required” cookie does anything more than what is strictly necessary (such as collecting more PII than it needs or has built in tracking) you need to ask consent.
you have to ask for permission for third party trackers to store cookies when people use your site.
If you’re using something like on premise tracking, like Matomo, then you still have to ask permission. There are some exceptions like if you don’t use cookies and you don’t track PII.
And just for extra clarification, if you are collecting PII (for example into logs) you need to ask permission even when you’re not storing any cookies.
Actually they do. They can’t just process your data without your consent. The exceptions where they can process your data without consent are (at least to my knowledge) legal obligation (for example processing your income to calculate your taxes) and public interest (for example doing statistics on households), both requiring some legal work before actually being allowed to be used without your consent.
Technically they can do so that they don’t have to care about GDPR but then it also has to become public knowledge that they don’t want to care about GDPR and it becomes the responsibility of the citizens to oppose such moves.
EDIT: Forgot to add that in this case it most likely would become part of the law so yeah, they wouldn’t have to care about GDPR in this circumstance.
Maybe you’re seriously overestimating the importance of your boycott?
2022 - 161 million views
2023 - 162 million views
2024 - 163 million views
Seems like your boycott has had no impact.