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If accepting is a no-op then you are being tracked even before you make your decision - as the page already have been loaded. A brutal violation of course but
by tjoff 7y ago
If accepting is a no-op then you are being tracked even before you make your decision - as the page already have been loaded.
A brutal violation of course but I absolutely expect that to be the case.
- the_other 7y agoI leave the majority of pages that have these popups now. My (likely vain) hope is that the tracking data will show higher bounce rates, and eventually the publishers will explore better financing models. I’m not holding my breath.
- tjoff 7y agoSame here, I've also realized that I pretty much never feel I've missed anything. Sites that don't respect their users extremely seldom have anything of quality to offer anyway.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoPerhaps the purpose of the spinner is to delete the data they've already collected? Are you still being "tracked" if all copies of the data are destroyed?
- _underfl0w_ 7y agoThat depends on who is doing the actual tracking/correlation and, assuming it's a third party, how quickly the site hands that data off.
- tjoff 7y agoMaybe, but hardly GDPR compliant. Not that they are aiming for that. God knows what they are attempting.