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Have you actually tried to read and understand GDPR before getting to this level self-righteousness? A blog writer wants an easy way of tracking popularity of

Have you actually tried to read and understand GDPR before getting to this level self-righteousness? A blog writer wants an easy way of tracking popularity of their posts. Clearly I need a protection from this. The internet is worse off after GDPR.

detaro 8y ago
And they can have easy ways of tracking popularity. You can use Google Analytics and similar products in compliant ways, and the tools for that have existed for ages (at least in the case of GA).
- eatitraw 8y ago
  Except that if you add "login with" button then you are suddenly start processing personal data (even if you only store social media ids).
  - Festro 8y ago
    But you don't just store social media ids. You seem to misunderstand that you're entering into a partnership with a third party. They become a data processor on your behalf. They process a whole lot more, and you have access to a lot of that data. Fortunately, the social media platform includes the privacy policy and consent process in their onboarding of users, so you don't need to worry about it for the purposes of social login.
    - eatitraw 8y ago
      You actually need to worry, because ids are personal data. Eve you abandon all these social media platforms and use emails for login, email addresses are still personal data, and you are still processing it.
pluma 8y ago
If you're using Google Analytics, you're paying for the analytics by letting them abuse your users. You can get some protection by using their anonymisation setting and signing a data protection addendum. If you really want to be on the safe side and respect your users' privacy, the best choice is self-hosting a free analytics tool like Matomo (formerly Piwik). Of course you still need to make sure your hosting company respects your users' privacy too. It's literally not the GDPR's fault if you're having problems protecting your users' privacy. It's the network effect of entire ecosystems of companies never having had any concern for privacy over decades. Don't complain to the EU, complain to companies not implementing privacy by default and only trying to shoe-horn it in as an afterthought.
Spone 8y ago
Perfect use case for self-hosted analytics, such as https://usefathom.com https://usefathom.com

detaro 8y ago

And they can have easy ways of tracking popularity. You can use Google Analytics and similar products in compliant ways, and the tools for that have existed for ages (at least in the case of GA).

eatitraw 8y ago
Except that if you add "login with" button then you are suddenly start processing personal data (even if you only store social media ids).
- Festro 8y ago
  But you don't just store social media ids. You seem to misunderstand that you're entering into a partnership with a third party. They become a data processor on your behalf. They process a whole lot more, and you have access to a lot of that data. Fortunately, the social media platform includes the privacy policy and consent process in their onboarding of users, so you don't need to worry about it for the purposes of social login.
  - eatitraw 8y ago
    You actually need to worry, because ids are personal data. Eve you abandon all these social media platforms and use emails for login, email addresses are still personal data, and you are still processing it.

pluma 8y ago

If you're using Google Analytics, you're paying for the analytics by letting them abuse your users. You can get some protection by using their anonymisation setting and signing a data protection addendum. If you really want to be on the safe side and respect your users' privacy, the best choice is self-hosting a free analytics tool like Matomo (formerly Piwik). Of course you still need to make sure your hosting company respects your users' privacy too. It's literally not the GDPR's fault if you're having problems protecting your users' privacy. It's the network effect of entire ecosystems of companies never having had any concern for privacy over decades. Don't complain to the EU, complain to companies not implementing privacy by default and only trying to shoe-horn it in as an afterthought.

Spone 8y ago

Perfect use case for self-hosted analytics, such as https://usefathom.com https://usefathom.com