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Now if that realization just would dawn on other websites as well...
> At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really. Now if that realization just would dawn on other websites as well...
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Some identifier tied to a time and "place" (service)?
To do what exactly?
Or sell your data to interested parties. Maybe if you liked certain GitHub repos, you are more likely to vote Democrat or whatever.
Teams has so many bugs and crashes, I'm flabbergasted how Microsoft can deliver something like that. Especially given that they have shown that they are capable of delivering a good experience based on the Electron platform with VSCode. My only explanation would be that it was cobbled together by interns, never meant for public release, then some project manager discovered it and said "Ship it!".
Are you using it on OS X? Runs fine on Windows for me and haven't heard any complaints from any of my coworkers. Everyone says it's better than WebEx.
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good that at least in one country they do something, but everywhere else it's wild wild web and the bandits are not threatened.
I typed "UK data watchdog" (for I did not know its name) and while it is true that I needed more clicks than for France, I found their enforcement page with their list of fines [0]: £18m here, £2m there... [0] https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/?facet_type...
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/parliament-must-hold-th...
They also had a massive budget shortfall which meant they sent out what amounted to a protection racket letters demanding £40 per year from every UK business, even though almost none of those businesses should be paying it.
All this while simultaneously investigating the ad industry, finding it is egregiously breaking the law, but then doing nothing about it.
The UK's ICO is taking an extremely broad definition of who should be paying it, but an extremely narrow definition of who it should enforce against.
I might add that the £40 it is demanding is almost 3 times the normal £15 yearly fee for running a business in the UK.
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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…
> Does anyone happen to know of a service like this that is free (not self hosted) for non-commercial, low-traffic sites? Panelbear is privacy-friendly, and has a free plan with 5,000 page views per month. Commercial use is allowed. https://panelbear.com Full-disclosure: I’m running this service. Feel free to ask me anything :)
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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…
Netlify Analytics is $9/mo
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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…
> Tracking cookies have little value for GitHub when they can collect data about users that have already been authenticated This is true to every advertiser or data seller, Including obvious ones like Google, FB, Amazon... and less obvious ones like your ISP, Apple, etc. The industry call it persistent ID (as opposed to cookie, which are transient ID): https://digiday.com/marketing/wtf-persistent-id/ (random result,…
There's no specific list of information regarded as PII, it's PII if it can be used to identify the user, even if only in combination of the other PII.
The GDPR is really quite broad there, other laws may be more lenient. However, the GDPR is not yet very strictly enforced or tested in court.
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> not self hosted you'll need a cookie banner then
Not necessarily. Only if personal data is collected by the third party.
That seems to be the advice of the UK ICO: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...
A lot of people have the misconception that the EU cookie law applies to all cookies, but as the blog post correctly points out, that just isn't the case.