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Re:No Cookie for You by spullara on Thursday December 17, 2020 @02:43PM (#25459495)
generally they are used to protect against DDOS and to have forensic data in the case there is malicious behavior and are allowed as essential to operating the service.
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Re:No Cookie for You by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:17PM (#25460555)
But then they can read the logs and track you anyway?
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Re:No Cookie for You by spullara on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:31PM (#25460720)
Sure. But that would be against the GDPR if you didn't say you were going to use it for that.
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Re:No Cookie for You by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:10PM (#25461180)
And who is going to check and enforce that?
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Re:No Cookie for You by spullara on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:21PM (#25461828)
That is within the domain of the EU governments.
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