No Cookie for You

Post by elliekelly » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 8:25 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #147

geek_at wrote: post #24

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True. Also even if you do track your visitors you can use privacy friendly (and ideally selfhostable) Analytics like Plausible https://plausible.io/ so you won't need the banners either. Just don't include facebook like buttons or any of these widgets

Does anyone happen to know of a service like this that is free (not self hosted) for non-commercial, low-traffic sites? Or which costs less than ~$10 per year. I have a basic Github Pages site, and I currently don't know whether anyone is looking at it, beyond the very few who take the time to email me. I don't need (or want) to know anything about my visitors, but it would be nice to know that I'm not simply tossing…

Post by irrational » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 8:27 PM UTC

dessant wrote: post #316

heroprotagonist wrote: post #141

This is fantastic. Thank you, GitHub. I hope this is a good demonstration of a hands-off approach at Microsoft in regard to company culture. I realize you likely still collect some analytics for yourself and that this change does nothing to alleviate that. EG, first party javascript. But it's great that it's divorced from 3rd parties. Presumably Microsoft has access to those metrics, though? I wonder how deeply that…

GitHub still sends the same personal data to their own analytics endpoint, and the privacy policy which lists third-party data subprocessors [1] has not been updated. See my comment below for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458635 Tracking cookies have little value for GitHub when they can collect data about users that have already been authenticated, and they send the username and user ID as part of…

Post by kaszanka » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 8:29 PM UTC

SamuelAdams wrote: post #344

Shoutout to the extension "I don't care about cookies" that removes all these banners automatically. [1]: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ [2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... [3]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-...

Post by gingerlime » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 8:33 PM UTC

dorgo wrote: post #246

thewebcount wrote: post #226

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I have never once in my life clicked on any of these banners. In no way have I given them my consent. I simply ignore them. If they track me, they're breaking the law.

the law requries either consent or legitimate interest ( there are even more options - but not relevant here ). So they can track you without consent and not breaking the law.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 8:38 PM UTC

madjam002 wrote: post #319

geek_at wrote: post #24

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True. Also even if you do track your visitors you can use privacy friendly (and ideally selfhostable) Analytics like Plausible https://plausible.io/ so you won't need the banners either. Just don't include facebook like buttons or any of these widgets

IANAL, but my understanding is that you might still need a consent box even if you use Plausible. I've only skimmed over the docs, but it looks like they derive a unique identifier from the IP address and user agent which changes every day. IP addresses still count as Personally Identifiable Information under GDPR, so deriving an identifier from this for a use case such as analytics would likely require consent. This…