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No, advetisements do not make a country innovative, and I never said that, and I have no idea why you would even bring this up. But if you are a small company

by jansan 3y ago

No, advetisements do not make a country innovative, and I never said that, and I have no idea why you would even bring this up. But if you are a small company in Europe that for example is producing a better and lighter cardboard box, you will have to hire a data privace specialist because you may get sued by some random idiot if you accidentially link to Google Fonts as a convenient way to display fonts, this certainly binds a lot of valuable mindshare and resources and therefore is bad for innovation. You cannot believe how much startups here have to think about GDPR even if they do not collect any data at all. Read the other answers in this thread. There are others who say that linking to Google Fonts is equal to selling your customers' data to Google. What a joke!

Tryk 3y ago
Of course we should just give up and give all our data to anyone who wants it, lest we burden the developers in any way.
jacquesm 3y ago
If you don't understand why including third party resources for developer convenience is a bad idea then you probably shouldn't be building commercial websites. Of course startups here - and everywhere else! - have to think about applicable law. Just like if you want to start a transportation company you'll have to think about applicable law. If a company does not collect any data at all then the GDPR is a complete no-brainer. Try this and see if you can make it work for you: to identify an individual you need ~33 bits. An IP address, even though it doesn't quite get you there gives you a very large fraction of the number of bits required. Adding a few more makes the individual identified. So therefore it is a very good idea not to allow access to the IP address to unrelated parties from a privacy point of view.
- jansan 3y ago
  That ad hominem attack was a bit uncalled for, especially since tablomonto.nl is sending their users' IP addressed to Google by using Google Fonts, too.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    Ah good old 'e tu, Brutus'. But you know what: I don't have any influence on how tablomonto.nl is implemented. But if you check out jacquesmattheij.com you'll get a much better idea of my attitude towards the privacy of the visitors to my website(s).
    - hnfong 3y ago
      You probably should send an unsolicited email to your colleague with this then: <quote> If you don't understand why including third party resources for developer convenience is a bad idea then you probably shouldn't be building commercial websites.

by jansan 3y ago

Tryk 3y ago

Of course we should just give up and give all our data to anyone who wants it, lest we burden the developers in any way.

jacquesm 3y ago

If you don't understand why including third party resources for developer convenience is a bad idea then you probably shouldn't be building commercial websites. Of course startups here - and everywhere else! - have to think about applicable law. Just like if you want to start a transportation company you'll have to think about applicable law. If a company does not collect any data at all then the GDPR is a complete no-brainer. Try this and see if you can make it work for you: to identify an individual you need ~33 bits. An IP address, even though it doesn't quite get you there gives you a very large fraction of the number of bits required. Adding a few more makes the individual identified. So therefore it is a very good idea not to allow access to the IP address to unrelated parties from a privacy point of view.

jansan 3y ago
That ad hominem attack was a bit uncalled for, especially since tablomonto.nl is sending their users' IP addressed to Google by using Google Fonts, too.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  Ah good old 'e tu, Brutus'. But you know what: I don't have any influence on how tablomonto.nl is implemented. But if you check out jacquesmattheij.com you'll get a much better idea of my attitude towards the privacy of the visitors to my website(s).
  - hnfong 3y ago
    You probably should send an unsolicited email to your colleague with this then: <quote> If you don't understand why including third party resources for developer convenience is a bad idea then you probably shouldn't be building commercial websites.