Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

• Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
• Don't promote proprietary software
• Try to keep things on topic
• If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
• Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
• Be nice :)

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much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

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Privacy regulations such as the GDPR say that you need to seek permission from your website visitors before tracking them.
Most GDPR consent banner implementations are deliberately engineered to be difficult to use and are full of dark patterns that are illegal according to the law.
I wanted to find out how many visitors would engage with a GDPR banner if it were implemented properly and how many would grant consent to their information being collected and shared.
If you implement a proper GDPR consent banner, a vast majority of visitors will most probably decline to give you consent.