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People of the EU might want to seriously reconsider the GDPR after seeing its affects such as this.
by IncRnd 5y ago
People of the EU might want to seriously reconsider the GDPR after seeing its affects such as this.
- Rygian 5y agoAs an European citizen, yes I am profoundly glad these effects exist. Error 418 means, to me, that the website is disappointed it cannot exploit my personal data without my consent. Good riddance.
- catlikesshrimp 5y agoHonest question: How do you feel about your (i)phone being a permanent cookie? It aggregates all your information. Is anything being prepared for that?
- forty 5y agoNote Gdpr is not only about cookies. It's about data collection. Being able to get and erase your personal data from any website is quite a nice feature.
- Rygian 5y agoI contribute monthly to https://noyb.eu/ https://noyb.eu/ and am following their initiatives in that regard [1]. [1] https://noyb.eu/en/project/advertising-ids https://noyb.eu/en/project/advertising-ids
- rvense 5y agoSites in the rest of the world might want to seriously reconsider their data collection practices after seeing its effects such as this.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- gambiting 5y agoQuite the opposite! I'd much rather that the website denied me access than treated my private info like their own property purely because they are too lazy to be GDPR compliant.
- mortehu 5y agoThis could be a client setting, rather than forcing this preference on 400 million users because of where they live.
- rvense 5y agoYeah, that's not how laws are supposed to work. I find the use of the 451 status code almost offensive in this case. They're invoking one of the most famous literary treatments of censorship, when really what's happening is that the citizens of the EU are being protected from an assault on our human rights.
- adamrezich 5y ago"HTTP 451 Not available for legal reasons" is an established convention
- mcv 5y agoI would strongly prefer if my browser handled my privacy preferences and ensured my personal data isn't shared with websites I don't want to share it with. Because even if a website promises to obey GDPR rules, I have no way to verify if they actually do.
- eCa 5y agoAs an EU citizen: Actually, no. Now, if only we could get rid of the dark-patterned cookie dialogs..
- vidarh 5y agoI'd rather seriously reconsider dealing with publishers of sites who consider it so important to trample all over our privacy rights that they'd rather block access than address the issues.
- Delk 5y agoI occasionally run into websites that deny access rather than complying with the GDPR, but that's fairly rare and happens perhaps a few times a year. Most sites I've seen have gone through the trouble of complying and implementing cookie consent controls instead. The added legal complexity from the GDPR for small-time operations has made me skeptical at times, but geoblocking due to the GDPR seems surprisingly rare and not a reason for that skepticism at all. I'd frankly have expected it to be much more common than it's turned out to be.