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Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden's privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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For clarity: This relates explicitly to UA not GA4. That doesn’t however mean that the current version is deemed GDPR compliant; that is likely something that a future investigation will decide.

Google claims that GA4 should be compliant, but at the same time they have also for years until a few days ago been providing a version of GA that wasn’t.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In fairness, as a service, they were basically just handed a golden ticket.

[–] snek 2 points 1 year ago

True, and they are making lemonade for sure.

But again, my issue is with sleezy advertisement for a 'profitable open source' product.