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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by Timon3 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:02AM (#35054385)
Why exactly is it seemingly so expensive not to sell your customer data?
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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by alex_sf on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:05PM (#35057818)
That's not the issue. I don't want to see personal data sold either. It's all the little rules. There are hundreds of pages just in GDPR. You need a banner and explicit opt-in just to support login/logout functionality.
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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by Timon3 on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:06AM (#35092951)
Can you explain why you believe this to be the case? Let's say you log the user in. Yes, you need consent to store a login cookie, but that doesn't mean you need "a banner and explicit opt-in". You only need explicit opt-in, which you can do by... putting a "remember me" box next to your login form[1]. Is that really so hard?

[1] https://law.stackexchange.com/a/32157

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