Had anyone on HN had experience with people / companies / institutions abusing GDPR?
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I would’ve been surprised if the authorities had handed out fines that fast, as they usually need to give companies a reasonable amount of time to fix problems after they are revealed.
FF61 on Mac. Solutions for Chrome would also be interesting.
Note that I specifically don't want 'self destructing cookies' or session- or time-limited ones. I just want to white/blacklist by site, cookie name, and perhaps cookie content.
I've briefly looked for suitable extensions, but not yet found anything.
On the forums I run email is the only identifying property and in my case the trolls (2 of them I think) were unable to sign in as the users in question, so I have refused to recognise the request (and then had the threats of legal action... but what else can one do if someone cannot prove their identity?).
Forums which collect other personal data, like maybe date of birth, and allow it to remain hidden... those might have a problem, depending on the sensibility of the data, but still if you shared the account details with someone, it seems to me difficult to claim that the forum and not the user is the one responsible.
It instead moved to a much less useful Reddit subthread.
> Had anyone on HN had experience with people / companies / institutions abusing GDPR?
Any site that gives you a consent box with the bullshit tracking enabled by default, or that lets you know they use cookies with no way to opt-out. Per GDPR tracking should be opt-in so even pre-ticked checkboxes aren't allowed.
The only site that I've seen do this right is Quartz. They have a simple modal "we use tracking for X and Y", do you want to allow or deny?
