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I don't follow. How does Whois now having privacy - which had nothing to do with GDPR - make the internet worse?
by junon 4y ago
I don't follow. How does Whois now having privacy - which had nothing to do with GDPR - make the internet worse?
- superkuh 4y agoIn the old days (up to ~2018) you could always contact people on the internet. Now you cannot contact people. That's bad. It's like the switch from knowing and being able to talk your neighbors to not knowing and not talking to your neighbors. Like the switch from a small town to a megacity. And you're completely wrong about GDPR. It is the primary, if not exclusive, reason most registrars in most regions have removed WHOIS information. ref: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registration-data-specs-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registration-data... https://circleid.com/posts/20210119-whois-record-redaction-and-gdpr-whats-the-evolution-post-2018 https://circleid.com/posts/20210119-whois-record-redaction-a...
- junon 4y agoWHOIS having privacy guards was a thing at least as far back as 15 years ago, as memory serves.
- superkuh 4y agoI'm aware. Look at the plots of WHOIS privacy vs open once ICANN was forced to allow it by the GDPR. They're in my second link. You cannot deny that correlation so I assume you just didn't bother looking.
- asdajksah2123 4y agoSo basically people who were unaware of the fact that their private data was being served publicly are now protected by default thanks to the GDPR.