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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Symbiote on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:24PM (#17222676)
> your data is sold

It's now easier to see some of this, with the GDPR rules.

The Gitlab cookie page lists 80 "marketing" cookies which may be set: https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/cookies/

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by phs318u on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:03PM (#17222940)
Wow. On the one hand I'm impressed with the openness (almost - what does purpose='unclassified' mean?), as well as the option to elect which cookie category I agree to. On the other hand... my, that's a lot of tracking!
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Symbiote on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:30PM (#17232705)
Something similar (sometimes exactly this interface) is shown on about every third newly visited website I look at from the EU, since 25 May.

If you don't see this, it could be informative to use a British or Irish VPN (to keep an English language default) for a day or two.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by the_duke on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:04PM (#17222949)
Most of which you can now disable disallow on first visit.
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