this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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And when they combine traffic from you with traffic from others they can infer more info.
To comply with GDPR, they'd need consent for that, and you can't get consent through an
<img />tag, and I was never asked for consent before seeing a giphy in slack, for example.There are places where they don't care about GDPR. It is probably relevant in the giphy case but other sites opreate outside the eu.