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Careful. That is an 100% unofficial site. It is not chartered or funded by the EU. The linked article is from “Richie Koch”an editor working on human rights stories who wrote the article on behalf of Proton VPN, which runs the GDPR.eu site as a content marketing scheme. The linked article is not the law and not official guidance, though it provides a reasonably good summary.

Everything sqrt2 says in the comments is entirely correct, as far as I can tell.

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Fair point. And thanks. I think now that my position - while how it should be, consistent with the GDPR and repeated at multiple places - is possibly not in line with a court decision from 2019 or so, that interpreted the e-Privacy Directive in a wrong way imho, and at the very least might depends on local practice of how EU "law" is applied. So you two are probably right.

Ridiculous to govern non-privacy relevant tech usage like this. I still think that's illegal where I live. Regardless, let's hope the e-Privacy Regulation or future court decisions solve this.

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