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> Today, for instance, we see that a majority of people who install an ad blocker don't actually do it to block ads (that's just an added bonus). They are actually doing it to block tracking. Is there any evidence for this at all?
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I don't think so - I think blocking goes for both annoying and dangerous ads, _and_ blocking trackers like facebook/google's invisible pixels. At least I run ublock origin, adguard, scriptsafe and privacy badger for maximum protection.
How many users do you think are like you? Especially in the number of plugins?
There's dozens of us! Dozens!
But more seriously, there's actually lots of us. You don't hear about us because we don't narcissistically post about it on facebook. We just block shitty software and move on with our lives.
I have no stats for you though, because stats are usually collected through third party trackers, and I block them all, so I'm never represented on anyones metrics. Based on some rough stats like these[1] and my own experience, I'd guess something like 1-3% of the population in western countries.
[1] https://www.quantable.com/analytics/how-many-users-block-goo...
What if I told you... (Morpheus photo) 1. Social websites don’t have to be giant, centralized communities too big to police themselves. 2. People need more tools to help them achieve things in the real world, rather than spending hours a day chatting about the real world online. 3. There are ways to make money online without ads begging you to click on them, and they involve real-world goods and services that your we…
There's the benefit of being able to trivially connect with friends, family and acquaintances by a few degrees. But since that applies to those users too, and the overlap is partial, the user graph grows unbounded. If you limit it in some way, then you necessarily will have some users at an edge with a restricted experience. That's likely very bad for business.
With point 2 there's the general overall argument of whether these concrete, codified social networks should exist at all - whether they are healthy to society or people compared to the more limited gossip circles they would be in otherwise. I don't think it's clear cut to call it worse and I don't know if we can put that cat back in the bag even if we wanted to.
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But there is a lot of other PID with this visit - ip address, cookies, browser fingerprint
Ok, let's say I, as a publisher, don't set user cookie if user hasn't registred/logged in, and don't store IP in logs, and don't do browser fingerprinting. Why can't I load some 3rd party tools? What author is claiming, essentially, that in a mere 2 month from now, you can sue almost any European publisher for data privacy breach. Outrageous claim require outrageous proof.
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Ok, let's say I, as a publisher, don't set user cookie if user hasn't registred/logged in, and don't store IP in logs, and don't do browser fingerprinting. Why can't I load some 3rd party tools? What author is claiming, essentially, that in a mere 2 month from now, you can sue almost any European publisher for data privacy breach. Outrageous claim require outrageous proof.
> Why can't I load some 3rd party tools? You can, you just need assurance that they're also GDPR compliant if you want to be GDPR compliant. If the third-party violates GDPR, but requires your website to run on (e.g. third-party JS, other types of beacons), I think judges are going to have a dim view on that, and so you can't simply claim that it's them, not you. (There may be mitigations, e.g. if you have a contract…
So if your interpretation is correct, and GDPR affects even completely anonymous users, I'll be seeing and clicking "consent box" each time I go read a newspaper or just do general browsing. Like the "we use cookies" stuff, but on steroids.
EDIT: but still, I find this hard to believe, tbh. It means no ads served to anonymous users, and this has consequences I can't even imagine.
GDPR articles seem to be getting some traction on HN as everyone is trying to figure out: "Do I need to do something for this? Is so, what?" For a recent project I read (and translated to plain english) [1] every single article in the GDPR legislation and for our purposes it can be summed up as: "Treat user data like names and emails as if they were credit card numbers" AKA: be paranoid about keeping them, encrypt th…
GDPR articles seem to be getting some traction on HN as everyone is trying to figure out: "Do I need to do something for this? Is so, what?" For a recent project I read (and translated to plain english) [1] every single article in the GDPR legislation and for our purposes it can be summed up as: "Treat user data like names and emails as if they were credit card numbers" AKA: be paranoid about keeping them, encrypt th…
If you are big enough to have to worry about this you are probably a company with plenty of resources to think and comply with this. So it's hard to imagine how many readers of HN are getting their answers on HN (or similar). If you are small time nobody is going to come after you. Sure something could happen and you could also get a traffic ticket going 57 in a 55 zone and a host of other outlier events.
> AKA: be paranoid about keeping them, encrypt them, use SSL on your site, respond to requests from people if they ask if you have them, fix them if they're wrong, don't use them if they say you can't.
One size fits all advice doesn't make sense in this and in other similar cases. You will spend a great deal of time and effort dealing with 'maybe's' instead of the day to day.
Does this mean every site will need to ask permission for Google Analytics?
What if I told you... (Morpheus photo) 1. Social websites don’t have to be giant, centralized communities too big to police themselves. 2. People need more tools to help them achieve things in the real world, rather than spending hours a day chatting about the real world online. 3. There are ways to make money online without ads begging you to click on them, and they involve real-world goods and services that your we…
Yeah, I could even imagine a scenario where you help connect people to real-world goods and services for free; the provider of those goods and services would be more than happy to help keep your bills paid, assuming there was some kind of mechanism that would drive people to their goods and services and not a competitor.
What would such a mechanism look like?