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		bflesch 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Most websites don't need cookie consent banners You are confidently incorrect. Consent is not needed if you only track for your own business and do not send the data to other businesses. One of the big GDPR-compliant website analytics tools, matomo, even has a dedicated page on this topic: https://matomo.org/blog/2021/10/matomo-exempt-from-tracking-... "Matomo has also been approved by the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) as one of the select few web analytics tools that can be used to collect data without tracking consent." more info: https://matomo.org/gdpr-analytics/

tonymet 8 days ago [–]

You linked the wrong page

bflesch 8 days ago | [–]

technically the quote was included on the linked page, but I added a second link to make it more clear :)

tonymet 8 days ago | | [–]

i meant the subject matter. a long list of specs doesn't help the discussion.

Just give an example. If this hypothetical solution is so easy, why are examples hard to come by?

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