[chii]

How can GDPR apply to processes running locally on your machine?

At best, you can claim misleading advertising (which, is often handled by the fair trade commission or something similar, and often has to show damages before they can award anything).

[NeedMoreTea]

GDPR can apply to personal data on a piece of paper. What matters is the data, and what is done with it.

Does that cookie get read by Google? Of course, or there would be no point. Does it enhance their tracking? Most likely. Is there a GDPR compliant opt-out without loss of features? At first glance it seems not.

[tveita]

They're tampering with the expected operation of the browser so that even after the user explicitly told them not to it still sends personally identifiable tracking information to their servers.

I'm glad the GDPR is in effect, so instead of "this should be illegal" we can say "of course this is blatantly illegal".

I hope they get a fine for this, with multipliers for how deliberate it is, and for keeping on defending the behaviour even after being called out.

[ctavan]

I recommend this read: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-gdpr-ca...

[czechdeveloper]

Your url does not work for me (404), this one does: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-gdpr-ca...