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> It’s just a website that refuses to protect user privacy. To be pedantic, they aren't refusing to protect privacy, they're refusing to comply with GDPR whic
by parineum 1y ago
> It’s just a website that refuses to protect user privacy.
To be pedantic, they aren't refusing to protect privacy, they're refusing to comply with GDPR which requires more than just protecting privacy.
It could be that they just don't want to put a big dumb banner on their site.
- aniviacat 1y agoYou don't need a cookie banner if you respect users' privacy.
- kayfox 1y agoBut you do need a GDPR specialized attorney to review all of what your doing even if you don't use any cookies. Why? Even logging an IP address in a request log is creating records controlled by GDPR. When TV news in the US is broke and only gets along because large companies buy up stations to control the news, its hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on complying with laws from another continent.
- subscribed 1y ago> logging an IP address.... Untrue. IP is an category of PII but its not PII in itself unless you're a law enforcement. Separately, if you log IP addresses you're doing it to prevent abuse and to provide security to your server, you're already permitted to do so. More on that: https://missinfogeek.net/gdpr-consent/ https://missinfogeek.net/gdpr-consent/
- einsteinx2 1y agoThat sounds like a great example of why you need a GDPR specialized attorney to review everything you do then…or just return status code 451 and call it a day.
- subscribed 1y agoFair point, thanks.
- hfsh 1y agoOr more likely, they set up a temporary redirect 7 years ago thinking 'oh we need some time to figure it out', and promptly forgot about it.
- sverhagen 1y agoTo be pedantic some more, they used a HTTP 301 to get you to a page that uses a HTTP 200. It just _says_ "Error 451".
- rbanffy 1y agoSigh. I should have suspected that’d be the case.
- 1718627440 1y agoThanks, and I wouldn't even classify that as pedantic.