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A comment on GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts. Parent comment

Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by bufferoverflow on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:01PM (#30139420)
1) wouldn't Google be able tell that through the refferrer header?
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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by gkbrk on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:23AM (#30145753)
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.
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