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The industry response to GDPR is continually fascinating. The idea of the GDPR was, presumably, to suggest that publishers and other industry actors might like
by cannam 6y ago
The industry response to GDPR is continually fascinating.
The idea of the GDPR was, presumably, to suggest that publishers and other industry actors might like to change their ways. If they were to keep doing what they had been doing, in terms of personal data collection and sharing, it would require such specific and explicit opt-ins for every single reader that no publisher would think it was a worthwhile tradeoff any more.
But the choice of the publishers has been to do that - to place those specific and explicit opt-ins in front of their readers, to offload to their readers the hard work of changing their ways instead of changing them themselves.
- eska 6y agoPersonally I'm amazed that there still are so many websites with opt-out policies, which are illegal according to GDPR.
- raverbashing 6y agoThey love to repeat the crap about how gdpr fines are in the millions while making sure to barely "comply" with the law. Or just pretend to comply at least. Just remember that following the letter and not the spirit of the law usually only flies in the US
- bmn__ 6y agoReport offenders to ankle-biters like https://noyb.eu https://noyb.eu
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoYes! This never gets any attention, but I can't see why. We also never talk about the GDPR's general enforcement history.
- dirtydroog 6y agoIt's about CPM's. More user information attracts higher valued ads. One such use case is advert frequency capping; only showing a particular user an ad a certain number of times over a certain time period. You can't do that without being able to identify a user (by IP, cookie, IFA, whatever), which needs GDPR consent.