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How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook

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Re: How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook

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I'm going to read thoroughly through the terms and conditions and get a case going in European Courts when this comes into play, because you know for a FACT Google and Facebook will put in some vague term to let them collect data for "future" improvement of the service. Watch and see.

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So, how long until this one also also gets neutered when European governments realize they can't even bring their own websites into compliance with the new law? ;)

The Man will often exempt himself.

The provisions are already there, just waiting to be used. National security, secrecy, etc.

Re: How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook

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> Nor can they deny access to their services to users who refuse to opt-in to tracking.[1]

Taken literally this means it's illegal to provide a service in exchange for tracking. Can someone elaborate on whether this is true and what else it applies to or what else other business models are made outright illegal?

Re: How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook

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> The critical question for both businesses is whether users will click “yes”, when asked to consent.

Yes, users will click yes on basically anything. Facebook could put up a message that says "In order to proceed, click yes to give us half the money in your checking account" and the majority of Facebook users will still click through. Look at EU cookie warnings. Did any of those warnings noticeably impact anybody's traffic after the first week?

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Site will not render properly with Google Analytics blocked. Web site renders with text on top of text. Grey on black text. Is this some fake site by a Google front intended to give this idea a bad reputation?

I use uMatrix on Chrome and have every non-pagefair.com script blocked, including google analytics. Not seeing any site rendering issues here. Perhaps it's your browser?
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