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Re: Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox

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Post by megaman22 » Sun, May 27, 2018, 1:05 PM UTC

Sylos wrote: post #100

kuschku wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still requires that they inform the user, with the Cookie Notice soft-consent (or whatever the new ePrivacy directive will replace that with soon).

If the Cookie does not track PII, then you don't need such a banner. Cookies used for logins are excluded as well. 99% of web publishers went completely over board with Cookie banners, because they did not understand the law.

It seems to me that if nobody can understand what the law actually covers, it's an exceptionally shitty law.

Re: Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox

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Post by Sylos » Sun, May 27, 2018, 1:09 PM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #27

kuschku wrote: post #23

Great, so about:addons doesn’t use tracking Google Analytics cookies anymore? Or has a visible way to disable it (you need to enable DNT to get rid of this). And Firefox Nightly does not track personally identifiable telemetry anymore? No. Mozilla still tracks every step I take. What the fuck, Mozilla? EDIT: Example. Go to If you go to view-source: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ — In the code you’ll find G…

It makes me think back to the Mr. Robot ad fiasco a while back.

...in which no personal data was collected at all.

Just because in some ways it's technologically possible for Mozilla to track your stuff, does not mean that they actually do it, that they actually violate their privacy policy or now the GDPR.

Re: Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox

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Post by bausshf » Thu, May 31, 2018, 9:31 AM UTC

jhall1468 wrote: post #30

daxorid wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to elaborate? In which US court does the EU have standing to bring suit against a US citizen or corporation for violation of regulations the US does not recognize by either law or treaty?

Yeah, you aren't going to get what you asked for. There are no civil enforcement agreements between the EU and the US so they can do exactly nothing.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/30509/how-are-g...