I'm glad this was posted here because I never would have heard about it otherwise, until one of my sites' monthly downloads would have broken.
But I still can't quite figure out if anything's changing technically except a new file location that requires an account to access, and new license terms -- or is there something else?
If someone requests a "do not sell" for their IP address that is in the middle of a range... is the range being split in 2, and skipping that address? Or are the ranges staying the same, and is there a separate "blacklist" of some kind that says, if the IP is any of these individual addresses, it's against the law to geolocate? And is that blacklist in the same file, or something to do with "we will... communicate all valid “Do Not Sell” requests to you as we receive them"?
Wish this post were both clearer, and that it had been announced at least a couple of months in advance, rather than less than 2 weeks before taking effect today. (Still, I can't complain too much -- it's free so I'm just glad the public databases exists at all.)
But I still can't quite figure out if anything's changing technically except a new file location that requires an account to access, and new license terms -- or is there something else?
If someone requests a "do not sell" for their IP address that is in the middle of a range... is the range being split in 2, and skipping that address? Or are the ranges staying the same, and is there a separate "blacklist" of some kind that says, if the IP is any of these individual addresses, it's against the law to geolocate? And is that blacklist in the same file, or something to do with "we will... communicate all valid “Do Not Sell” requests to you as we receive them"?
Wish this post were both clearer, and that it had been announced at least a couple of months in advance, rather than less than 2 weeks before taking effect today. (Still, I can't complain too much -- it's free so I'm just glad the public databases exists at all.)