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Comment · 5 years ago
This one is significantly more active than the others.
Comment · 5 years ago
Can you give few examples of those other companies? Thanks.
Comment · 6 years ago
It used to be like that, but that's no longer happening. Last winter, there was no snow in Helsinki at all :(
Comment · 6 years ago
ePrivacy talks about "information stored in the terminal equipment", which includes any information you can get from the device. For example the user agent, location, and operating system. It's not about the information itself being essential or not, but what you do with it: is it for essential purposes (consent not needed) or non-essential purposes (consent needed).
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes: the location information on the browser. You cannot access it for non-essential purposes without user consent. See
Article 5 / Statement 3 in the ePrivacy directive[1]
[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Comment · 6 years ago
That depends solely on what is an "analytics cookie". If it's a permanent identifier, then it's considered PII and requires a GDPR consent. Otherwise GDPR doesn't care. You can freely store foo=bar to a cookie.
Comment · 6 years ago
The list is only for non-essential services such as website analytics. Is there a better cite for Czech Republic? Happy to edit.
Comment · 6 years ago
EU is still working on a new version of the directive. I heard they have been doing it for three years now.
Comment · 6 years ago
The eDirective states that the browser and device information (like the URL) is private data and you need a permission to access it for non-essential purposes such as analytics. This is why Simple Analytics also needs a cookie banner, contrast to what their marketing says.
Comment · 6 years ago
Cookies are not an issue for GDPR, it's all about respecting users' privacy. In fact you can freely store anonymous data to cookies, localStorage, and sessionStorage without issues. The problem comes when you are dealing with personally identifiable information such as permanent identifiers.
You definitely need a "cookie banner" when using Simple Analytics, Fathom, or Plausible. Any service that accesses the device information such as the URL needs a permission from the user according the ePrivacy directive.
We have consulted EU law specialists when building our upcoming analytics service that is as privacy-friendly as Simple Analytics, while still measuring important things like retention and conversions. More information:
Comment · 6 years ago
Being interesting is not enough when you are picking a language for your next major project.
Comment · 6 years ago
Really curious to hear your findings! We're happy users of Badger, but we have never looked it's internals. I guess you can list the differences you've found without using a bad mouth. Thanks in advance.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is exactly what happened to me: I did not take a further look on Haskell just because its syntax seemed so weird.