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  • varjen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And when they combine traffic from you with traffic from others they can infer more info.

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      1 year ago

      To comply with GDPR, they’d need consent for that, and you can’t get consent through an <img /> tag, and I was never asked for consent before seeing a giphy in slack, for example.

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        1 year ago

        There are places where they don’t care about GDPR. It is probably relevant in the giphy case but other sites opreate outside the eu.