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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by nvm0n2 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:09PM (#38087055)
It's clearly not required. The site would function without it. Therefore an activist will eventually argue to a court that it's a GDPR violation and win, meaning you have to pay up a fraction of your revenue (possibly sending you under).

GDPR threads on HN are always like this. Tons of people saying "no no it doesn't work that way it wouldn't be reasonable" and then when that thing ends up being ruled illegal, "of course it's illegal everyone knew that it's all very clear".

GDPR is written in such a way that you can't ever know what is or isn't allowed.

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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by smolder on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:41PM (#38087600)
> GDPR is written in such a way that you can't ever know what is or isn't allowed.

But... it's been ruled and is widely understood that this type of cookie is considered functional and requires no consent. It's allowed.

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