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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by bryarsdj on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:24AM (#30136962)
But shouldn't the site owner pay for a CDN and host the resources themselves? In which case the CDN wouldn't own the IP information. I think the problem here is that the website author is getting free bandwidth in exchange for their user's IP address, which in the example Google can then use for tracking and other things in exchange.
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by aloe_falsa on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:53AM (#30137686)
> But shouldn't the site owner pay for a CDN and host the resources themselves?

Not sure I understand this. Whether you pay for a CDN or not, you'll still be guilty of sending the user's browser to an external domain without consent (because it happens before the page is fully loaded). The only GDPR-compliant solution seems to be self-hosting everything.

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