[omnimus]

The article picks Fathom fingerprinting but there are differences. Other services like Plausible also include time element. So to plausible every day you are someone else. Unlike Fathom, Plausible cannot track unique visitors per month. Fathom is pretty sneaky here and its not surprising because they have been pretty sketchy in past.

EU law is very much based on interpretation and “spirit” of the law and Plausible lawyers just think its enough to not be able track individuals but track overall flows of masses.

[t0mas88]

Most of these "cookie free" analytics vendors keep talking about how cleverly they have anonymised the data, but this article finally gets it right: That does not matter for cookie popups. Anonymisation is only relevant to GDPR, but you still need cookie banners under the ePrivacy directive.

[arp242]

> you still need cookie banners under the ePrivacy directive

Only if you store data in the browsing (using cookies, localStorage, or any other technical means), no?

[SpikeMeister]

The article claims that loading JavaScript that sends back information comes under the ePDs definition of accessing stored data:

> So sending out JavaScript code that instructs the terminal equipment to send back information is… accessing the information.