Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p...
by FredPret on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:48AM
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I was anti-Brexit when it happened, but am beginning to see the wisdom of it.
Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p...
by can16358p on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:57AM
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It was already non-invasive. I, as a conscious human being browse a website, use their (potentially free) services. The website can of course put a cookie and track me. If I'm really paranoid I could block cookies etc but regardless, no one forces me to use their website.
If someone pointed a gun and forced me to go to a website, enter my personal data and give my data to trackers that would be something else (still not website's fault but anyway).
Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p...
by nickpp on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:44AM
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Who is deciding what is the wrong and good direction to innovate in for everybody else?
Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p...
by can16358p on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:01AM
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Apparently some politicians in EU who has a grudge against US-based tech companies.
"Hey Google and Facebook is doing so well let's make harder for everyone using their services."
I neither have sympathy for those companies and never been to US, but adter all these GDPR regulations I actually started to sympathize.
It's exactly the opposite.
It forces technology to be developed in a way that protects human rights (specifically the right to privacy).
Innovation is not automatically good if you're innovating in the wrong direction. Think of it as a vector, not a scalar.