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If you want to prevent a single user hitting F5 a million times from messing with your analytics you need to track IPs which requires the banner.
by charcircuit 3mo ago
If you want to prevent a single user hitting F5 a million times from messing with your analytics you need to track IPs which requires the banner.
- preg_match 3mo agoI'm not convinced this is a real concern. Bots, maybe, but then again even fancy analytics will be fucked by that because they use hundreds or thousands of high-reputation residential IPs. So, you're optimizing for the wrong thing I think.
- TheCoelacanth 3mo agoNo, you don't need consent for that. It falls under the legitimate interest exception. You need to disclose it in your privacy policy, you need to delete it after a reasonable retention period and you can't use those logs for other purposes like ad targeting, but you don't need a consent banner to track things that you are legitimately using for security purposes.
- charcircuit 3mo ago>It falls under the legitimate interest exception. What makes that a legitimate interest and not advertising?
- srdjanr 3mo ago> and you can't use those logs for other purposes like ad targeting This part I guess
- charcircuit 3mo agoBecause he said so is not a good reason.
- TheCoelacanth 3mo agoBecause preventing crime is drastically more important to having a functioning society than being able to target advertising slightly more accurately.
- charcircuit 3mo agoBut how is wanting to show targeted ads not a legitimate interest. Without such a feature a site might be unprofitable and be shut down. If something is required to operate it sounds pretty important feature.