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On the other hand, that’s a fairly entitled viewpoint.

Users are using infrastructure I finance, to do things on the website(s) I created. If you want privacy from the services youre using, create or host your own.

IANAL, but this is not legal under the GDPR. The GDPR requires op-in. Moreover, you cannot make non-anonymous[1] data collection mandatory to use a product, unless it is necessary for the product to function (in a strict sense).

[1] Anonymous does not seem to include pseudonyms like a random identifier in the GDPR, since pseudonyms could be linked to real identifiers in the future.



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Good luck taking a vacation in the EU or (maybe) having to change planes after getting diverted.

As long as you stay away from the EU, they'll probably not touch for GDPR.




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