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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by luplex on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:56AM (#30136761)
ianal, but I think CDNs would not be affected by the ruling, since they serve an important function. Google Fonts was deemed illegal here since it's not necessary and you can easily provide a font in a privacy-preserving way.
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by elevader on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:30AM (#30137008)
Not a lawyer as well but I'm not sure about this. Let's use the "jQuery served by a CDN" example here: You can easily argue that using jQuery is necessary for your site to function but there is no real benefit to the user by doing this with a CDN when you could just ship jQuery from your own server. AFAIK the benefit of CDNs is largely nullified nowadays by browsers using a different cache for each primary domain anyways, so you can't even really point out a potential benefit for the user (faster load times) here.
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by charcircuit on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:11AM (#30136873)
Google Fonts is a CDN. The *C*ontent they *D*eliver are fonts.
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