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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by arka2147483647 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:29AM (#30136577)
I think you confuse user, the Human, and user, the Programming Idiom.

User, the Human, is not going to be asked weather or not the browser should open every one of the possibly hundreds of references in a web page!!

Now, user, the Programming Idiom, might be configured, programed, etc.. to behave differently, but the reality is that is that's not how the modern web works. If the browser is not configured to behave the way it comes from the box by Google, Microsoft or Apple, most pages will not work correctly.

So I think your configuration/technical argument is purely theoretical. The court cannot expect the average user to understand do any of that.

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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by marcus_cemes on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:44AM (#30136674)
> User, the Human, is not going to be asked weather or not the browser should open every one of the possibly hundreds of references in a web page

Exactly, because we strive for a balance of convienience with complexity. Most people wouldn't mind downloading a font from Google, they already use it directly anyway. This isn't how law works, as an engineer, I'm just trying to find some sanity in what to me seems like an insane court decision with possibly very big repercussions for the rest of the internet.

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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by VonGallifrey on Sunday January 30, 2022 @10:13AM (#30137848)
Just host the font yourself. What is the problem?
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by bmn__ on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:15AM (#30136895)
The terminology for these concepts in common use is "user" and "user agent".
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by rzzzt on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:29AM (#30137004)
But User, the Human has the means to command its User Agent, the Browser, to conveniently skip loading whatever they would not like to see, like fonts, executable scripts or ads.
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