Re:Consent, GDPR and Google Analytics
by noisem4ker on Sunday February 13, 2022 @07:03PM
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I think you meant opt-in. But it's actually opt-out in the case of Firefox, which has been shipping with Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled by default since 2019.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-now-ava...
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Re:Consent, GDPR and Google Analytics
by throwaway932489 on Sunday February 13, 2022 @07:52PM
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Opt-out means on by default, opt-in is off by default (sorry to state the obvious).
The users above are referring to opting in/out of the tracking rather than the blocking of the tracking - so GA on Firefox by that standard is opt-in, even though in a Firefox specific context the setting is opt-out.
Obviously the EU wouldn't be cool with "but a competing browser with a small market share blocks us by default anyway".
Yeah, I guess it depends on what the opting is for. I could have phrased that better.
What I meant to say: third-party tracking is still opt-out, since you need to actively enable the content blocking to avoid being tracked. The blocking of said content trackers is opt-in of course, but that's not what I was referring to.