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Good. But I fear this will have the opposite effect, with sites adding obfuscated self-hosted APIs (that eventually still pump data back to Google and elsewhere

Good. But I fear this will have the opposite effect, with sites adding obfuscated self-hosted APIs (that eventually still pump data back to Google and elsewhere), but now almost impossible for ad-blocking to catch (and definitely not as simple as DNS blocking the whole *.google-analytics.com).

eurg 3y ago
Most companies hope to sit it out non-compliantly until the law changes, and seek protection in numbers. Given the strange situation of repeated, failed attempts at making a cross Atlantic agreement, I wonder how GDPR ever became law.
- thefounder 3y ago
  You don't need an Atlantic agreement to enforce GDPR in Europe, at least not for multinational corporations.
  - eurg 3y ago
    The failed agreements are meant to make it possible to legally use certain SaaS in the EU, at all. That such agreements seem to be impossible under current law, despite being attempted to create by parts of government, is the interesting part. EU governance is very non-homogeneous even w.r.t. desired results.
    - thefounder 3y ago
      You can't legalise a U.S surveilance program in the E.U regardless of how you wrap it. I think that's what the ECJ ruling is about.
EMIRELADERO 3y ago
...until someone investigates deep enough and discovers that. Remember that under the GDPR the site has an obligation to tell you who they send the data to and for which purposes. So they would be breaking the law two-fold, hiding the truth and processing your data non-consensually. That would be a death sentence in court, since it proves malicious intent to bypass the law.