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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
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Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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This is how I KNOW it works as intended (i.imgur.com)

submitted 11 months ago by anarchy79 to c/[email protected]

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[–] anarchy79 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You see what they're actually doing there?

"We are by law forced to give you the option to view our ads and accept our tracking, because of privacy legislation in your region. Since you are hindering us from doing so, you can't come to the birthday party".

Ok, thank you EU, I suppose! :)

[–] grue 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure CNN is (willfully) misinterpreting the law. The EU is definitely not prohibiting them from just turning off the tracking without providing a choice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but the average reader can't make that distinction and blames EU.

The joke is that CNN still violates GDPR with this trick.

[–] anarchy79 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I thank the LORD for GDPR. I am amazed it actually happened. I voted Pirate Party for EU Parliament every time, or whoever was most loud about privacy protections at the time, I wrote to parliamentarians, one of whom I grew up with, and I sure like to think and hope it made a difference. Never thought I'd see something like this happen. The EU works. Democracy works.