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So I am not allowed to keep server logs without consent?
That depends entirely on the nature of the information that is contained in your server logs.
And the purposes for which those logs are being used.
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#552Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came here to say this. Eliminating Google analytics is unequivocally a good thing. A strong B+ assessment. But the blog doesn't say anything about eliminating _tracking_. Personally, I can live with analysis that's used solely for product improvement. If that's all github is doing, then the score goes up to an A. But if they're siphoning off data for any other purposes - whether passing to the mother ship or otherwis…
This is all detailed in our updated privacy policy: https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/336
I know it is not a site wide issue and is probably a minor thing, but have you also looked into tracking done by embedded media, like embedded Youtube videos?
In case of Youtube there is a no-cookie domain that can be used for embedding and then, while client still sends the request to them, no additional cookie is set.
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#553Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I would recommend GoatCounter. https://www.goatcounter.com/
And there was me hoping for one of those old-school page-counter.gifs, but with numbers made out of goats...
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#554Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I thought that tracking cookies needed permissions regardless of whether they were first party or 3rd party?
EU law states that you have to disclose you are using ANY cookies that are NOT REQUIRED for the correct functioning of the site (for the end user).
So yes, use of tracking cookies, first or third party, would require a Cookie Consent Banner.
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#555I'm an American that's currently in Europe, and I recently downloaded a mobile ad-blocker for the purpose of blocking cookie popups. I was already blocking most tracking at the DNS level, so this was mostly for cosmetic purposes. Blocking consent banners has made browsing the mobile web so much more pleasant.
was this mobile adblocker on android or can you also get it for iOS? am interested.
I’m using 1Blocker on iOS.
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#556A 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.
I really hate the lies you see on a lot of new sites that they will send cookies "necessary for basic functionality." You're serving articles, there's no reason for session tracking!
Without cookies they can't check if you closed the cookie nag.
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#558> 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
Many people told you so. Remove third party scripts and cookies and suddenly things become easy.
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#559Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that those authorities are often stripped of resources toothless organizations often made to serve as digital potemkin villages to the public, everyone knows this and can't be bothered one second of their life to be wasted on that bs.
I typed "cnil fines" (the CNIL being the French data watchdog) on google which led me to their sanction page [0] which features 100M€ fines to Google and 35M€ to Amazon _last week_. It is surely not much in the grand scheme of thing but surely this is more than a mere Potemkin village. [0] https://www.cnil.fr/fr/tag/sanctions
That's true, but I wish they spread their reach wider. These fines to Google/Amazon/Facebook make the news, but are just a slap on the wrist to these giants. What would work much better is a wider campaign of smaller fines, so that everybody in the sleazy business would know or heard of someone who was fined.
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#560Earlier quoted context omitted.
You sound like the guy who wrote this: "We're not going to lie to you. Your privacy isn't our priority. It's not even close. Not because we want to track your every move. But because we simply don't care. We'd rather spend what limited time we have actually improving the web site. We're into taking pictures and adding content, not obsessing over what your dog had for lunch so we can sell it to MegaEnormousBigCo. We'r…
This honesty is refreshing.
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