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GDPR Forgive Us, It's Been One Month Since You Were Enforced…

posted by mrpg on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the much-ado-about-nothing dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A month after the enforcement date of the General Data Protection Regulation – a law that businesses had two years to prepare for – many websites are still locking out users in the European Union as a method of compliance.

[...] Another retailer that failed to get its house in order is posh homeware store Pottery Barn, whose notice says that "due to technical challenges caused by new regulations in Europe" it can't accept orders from the EU.

"The pace of global regulations is hard to predict," the shop complains about the legislation, which was adopted on 14 April 2016. "But we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our products everywhere."

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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Tuesday June 26 2018, @08:22AM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 26 2018, @08:22AM (#698655)

    However, those who choose "required cookies" only are faced with a wait while Forbes sort tries to handle your request – which some report can last for days...

    The process completes for me in testing, however the interesting thing is that while "processing" your request the site is sending http requests to dozens of advertising sites, it's probably waiting for responses too so my guess is that an adblocker could stall the process. I haven't dug into what it is doing, maybe it is sending an "awkward ****" tracker to every advertiser before it turns the cookies off, for me it is enough that the sites' first action when you say "required cookies only" is to contact a bunch of ad servers.

    Because of #GDPR [twitter.com], USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk!

    Yeah, I noticed that one too. I think there is a web equivalent of Parkinson's law - the ads always expand to (over)fill the bandwidth available.

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