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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by pathseeker on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:33PM (#23095942)
An iframe that pings Google is pointless if it doesn't send cookies.
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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by thefounder on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:01PM (#23096240)
How is that? Itcan send whatever it wants as query strings(e.g timestamp, current window etc)
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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by Nextgrid on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:35PM (#23097199)
Browser fingerprinting is a thing. In fact I suspect most of the supposedly GDPR compliant (so no cookies or local storage) still use fingerprinting in the background because you can't prove it's happening from the client (and the law is not being enforced anyway).
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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by chopin on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:06AM (#23101376)
Most fingerprinting relies on Javascript (or maybe some CSS shenanigans) which you could prove from the client.

Using fingerprinting for tracking is not GDPR compliant.

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