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by omnimus 705 days ago
So much this. The whole ad industry is afraid that most websites would switch to simpler more private compliant alternatives which would break their business (of reselling snooping data). So they are on marketing campaign to paint these alternatives as non compliant and requiring banners too. Basically every fart now needs a consent banner and when you already have a banner why not have this most invasive visitor screen recorder analytics that we send to our 743 partners in real time.