Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us...
by phkahler on Sunday January 30, 2022 @12:49PM
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1) google won't know what site told the browser to do that.
2) this is probably more of a browser issue than a site issue.
3) the reason browsers dont complain about content coming from different domains is because the entire ad industry depends on that behavior. That may need to stop ;-)
Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us...
by gkbrk on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:23AM
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Not all browsers send Referer headers. These days it's only useful for doing log analytics and hotlink protection from the browsers that do send the header.
2) this is probably more of a browser issue than a site issue.
3) the reason browsers dont complain about content coming from different domains is because the entire ad industry depends on that behavior. That may need to stop ;-)