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EU publishers on proposed “link tax”
- lixtra 8y agoI wait for google to ask for an opt in in robots.txt and reward this with a higher rating. Then, in a few years, they can exclusively serve opt in content.
- hayksaakian 8y agoGoogle News is already an opt-in system by way of defining metadata and a very particular XML sitemap
- akerro 8y agoTechdirt has trackers and profiles enabled by default which is against GDPR.
- friedman23 8y agoThey operate out of the US so they probably don't care. As an EU citizen you should file a formal complaint.
- Senderman 8y agoIn GDPR-land here, the site pushes a modal covering the content that lets you configure trackers. I'm no Phoenix Wright, but it looks like compliance to me.
- UncleEntity 8y agoNot to worry, pretty soon we'll have a global internet and an EU only one...
- salicideblock 8y agoThey did show me a banner asking me to accept cookies and offering a management panel - where I turned all but the "necessary" identifiers off. I thought this was GDPR compliant, enlighten me I I'm wrong.
- CGamesPlay 8y agoI was reading this article until a full page ad with no close button created a fake Facebook page with a roulette wheel offering me a prize.
- Senderman 8y agoWell, at least you got a prize. All I got was a modal I had to remove with the element inspector.
- tannhaeuser 8y agoYou can read it without annoyance by copy/pasting even if the modal is up. As much as I'd like a rational discussion about link preview of snippets (such as Google and DDG do for Wikipedia, StackOverflow articles, and also for news from ad-financed sites such that users don't go to the origin sources), this article unfortunately isn't contributing.