Re:EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but ...
by sacado2 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:03AM
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Avoiding personalized tracking of unregistered users means you can't use Google Analytics or something equivalent. Not that it's impossible per se, but these tools have a strong added value, so...
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Re:EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but ...
by elliekelly on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:45AM
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> but these tools have a strong added value, so...
Strong added value to who? If Google Analytics disappeared tomorrow do you think the average internet user would be at all impacted?
Remember, GDPR is about protecting the user.
Re:EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but ...
by qwerty456127 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:27PM
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I admit this is a very amateurish view but I don't really understand why do people need Google Analytics or anything like that at all. As a webmaster you can log every request a depersonalized way recording the fact of a request to a particular HTTP resource from a particular country originating from a particular website as a referrer at particular time. You don't need any 3-rd party service for this and this doesn't mean tracking any particular user.
Re:EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but ...
by CWuestefeld on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:19AM
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I'm not a fan of GDPR, but no, it doesn't mean that. It only means that GA can't be used in a way that allows you to correlate the data back to a particular individual. You can still use it in aggregate, and you can even follow individual threads through the system; you just can't know who the user was.