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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Online Tracking is Out of Control—#PrivacyBadger Can Help You Fight Back
Every time you browse, you're being tracked. Most #websites contain invisible tracking code companies use to collect and monetize your online activity. Many of those companies are #databrokers, who sell your information to anyone willing to pay. That’s why #EFF created #Privacy Badger, #free, #opensource #browserextension used by millions to fight #surveillance and take back control of their data.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation · Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight BackEvery time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back control of their data.
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🔗 David Sommerseth

Non-EU sites giving you this welcome ...

That "legal reason" argument... is bul***t

Their legal reasons is that they are not allowed to track you without your knowledge and your consent. And that is why they block you when you're visiting the site from EU. Because #GDPR requires sites to notify you of such possibilities.

The solution is simple: DON'T TRACK!

But there's no money in that. And if they had allowed you to visit and ignore GDPR they fear the EU would chase them down and give them a solid fine.

So if they can't earn money on you or they risk getting a fine when you visit their site, they rather tells you to «F*** of*!» and go somewhere else.

That's how valuable the tracking is for them. And it gives you nothing back.

So "legal reasons" .... yeah, right!

Screenshot from a rejection page to a US based web site: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact news@presspubs.com or call 651-407-1200.
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Roni Laukkarinen

Every once in a while, I read my old blog posts that link to other articles or blogs. 99% of those sites are now offline or show a domain-for-sale page. It kind of makes me sad. Most of my own websites are still online after 20+ years. I wonder why they gave up.

That being said, this instance will be online forever - I'll make sure of it. Even after my passing, I want it to live on. My websites have survived even when hosting companies went bankrupt, and so will this instance.

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