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They are young single founders in the idea or mvc stage. So nobody that is mentioned by any sources.
It took me 2 hours to get my family member's small web business GDPR compliant...
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First one that comes to my mind: their advertisers knowing you're on those sites, which page you read, when, for how long, etc. This is mitigated by running an Adblocker and a selective Javascript disabling extension like uMatrix or NoScript, but it would be much better if those sites would let their readers decide if they want to be tracked or not. Anyway, I'm also blocked on those sites but the same news on LA Time…
If you agree to pay $10 a month per paper, then you could have it. But majority of people have proven that they will not pay, hence it does not justify to have a paid subscription system without ads. When more and more people block ads, there will only be a few large sites remaining on the internet because the rest will not be able to survive in the most likely scenario. You could cry all about your freedom then.
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patio11 had a great back of the envelope calculation awhile ago on this. Turns out showing ads for a fridge right after you just bought one might be highly successful. Say the average person buys a fridge once every 10-20 years, the probability you're looking for a fridge this month is something like 1/120-1/240, call it .75 percent. Some percentage of fridge purchases end up being returned. Let's say 2 percent of th…
> ... might be highly successful. Only in the context of the disastrous relevance of tracking. Does tracking earn companies more than it costs users in added electricity? I doubt it.
And most of the tracking happens on the server, the client really only keeping some tokens for state and sending them with the requests.
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I see a problem with people (even democratically) deciding for me. I'd rather like it to be settled down between myself and the website owner.
That does not work. You have no bargaining power.
I'm not surprised. I used to work on a team at Google that had to deal with GDPR (I still work at Google, but on a different team), and we had to get legal review for a lot use-cases. For example, we had a backup system that took snapshots of our user-provided data. If a user requested their data be purged, should we purge all the backups as well? Since we had legal counsel in house, it wasn't too terrible. For a sma…
You know what? It's only a huge burden for organisations that process a lot of personal data in a variety of interesting ways.
This is interesting data but I'm not sure it supports the title - It shows Google's market share in the EU going up a tiny bit, but total tracking goes down in the same period, while the baseline is probably runaway growth like the US. Google may be hurt the least, but I doubt they're a "beneficiary" in economic terms.
It's a shame Project Wonderful just shut down - it felt like the kind of project that the GDPR should help. There must be a market for content-based, non-tracking ads that you can put up on any website without GDPR concerns. Google can and will fill that market, but since they can't lean on their global panopticon other ad providers can compete on fair terms.
From Project Wonderful's shutdown notice:
> Some advertising networks have held on by adopting more and more invasive user tracking, forcing their publishers to sign binding contracts, or by trying to train publishers (and readers!) to expect that "sometimes a bad ad will sneak through", but that's something we always refused to do. We believed - and still believe - that you deserve better. We believed - and still believe - in a world where an ad blocker wouldn't be an obvious thing to install, because advertising would be good, interesting, and non-invasive.
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Like who? Seriously. Besides that one blogger who was screaming because he didn't even want to bother with the help wordpress provided, I did not hear of a single person/company that quit because of that. It would also be quite embarrassing considering the time you had to prepare, the help that is all over now or the fact that nobody seems to enforce it. Especially for businesses.
Here you go: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/sites-blo... First hit from a google search for “GDPR shut down”.
Dodged a bullet here.
- history.com forwards to their german page history.de as it always did
- Ragnarok Online is working: https://www.ragnarokeurope.com/?lang=de
- Klout sounds just as dirty as unroll
- Super Monday Night Combat is working https://www.uberent.com/smnc/
Sooo what's the problem again?
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> ... might be highly successful. Only in the context of the disastrous relevance of tracking. Does tracking earn companies more than it costs users in added electricity? I doubt it.
I find that extremely unlikely, only because companies aren't entirely stupid, and if MANY companies have started doing that in this space, and since they started it their profits have gone up significantly, it points to this kind of tracking making a significant amount of money. And most of the tracking happens on the server, the client really only keeping some tokens for state and sending them with the requests.
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Cents per user is still a lot of money if you have a billion users.
Maybe the real value of tracking is the perceived value of tracking? It's a good way to combat competition as tracking requires that you already have a large presence.
Oh no, not the smaller advertising trackers. This is interesting data but I'm not sure it supports the title - It shows Google's market share in the EU going up a tiny bit, but total tracking goes down in the same period, while the baseline is probably runaway growth like the US. Google may be hurt the least, but I doubt they're a "beneficiary" in economic terms. It's a shame Project Wonderful just shut down - it fel…
So, relatively Google is the biggest beneficiary.
Oh no, not the smaller advertising trackers. This is interesting data but I'm not sure it supports the title - It shows Google's market share in the EU going up a tiny bit, but total tracking goes down in the same period, while the baseline is probably runaway growth like the US. Google may be hurt the least, but I doubt they're a "beneficiary" in economic terms. It's a shame Project Wonderful just shut down - it fel…