[johnnyanmac]

It's also easy if you simply stop trying to track users and only store the most necessary data. Like, no one ever seem to consider this.

Meanwhile, this same community a few days back were discussing the idea of trying to abolish advertisement. That's truly bluesky thinking if we're still justifying user tracking in 2025.

[superkuh]

I only "store" my webserver's logs and user submitted comments. But someone can still put the legal pressure on me, a random person, to force me to do work to turn over those logs/etc. It's wild. Like having a security camera, hosting a BBQ for the neighborhood, and having a neighbor demand access to the recorded video with legal threats. This whole thing really only makes sense in the context of for-profit incorporated persons. It should not apply to me, a random human person.

[kuschku]

You have up to 30 days to respond to access/edit/delete requests.

It's accepted practice to only keep logs for e.g. 48 hours and respond to any request with 2 days delay "we've got no logs from that timeframe anymore".

[AndrewStephens]

Why do you store your webserver's logs? My reading of the GDPR (I am not a lawyer) is that it strongly encourages site owners to store the very minimum amount of data about visitors - something that I wholeheartedly agree with.

Server logs are useful for debugging the site but also contain potentially identifying information (IP addresses) so I have my site delete them after 48 hours.

User submitted comments are obviously required for the usage of your site, so you are in the clear there.

[superkuh]

I read the logs with my human eyes manually because I am interested in learning about the web and internet. In fact today I found a whole new useful search engine because I saw it's spider in my logs.

    64.62.202.82 "GET /library/Math/Mathematical%20Methods%20for%20Physicists_%20A%20concise%20introduction_%20Tai%20L%20Chow_%202000.pdf -" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Centurybot/1.0; +http://www.rightdao.com/bot.html) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

It turns out that http://www.rightdao.com/ is a great old-style search engine that actually returns many tens of pages and thousands of results. As opposed to google that only ever returns <400, bing <900, and kagi <200.

I guess I keep logs because I want to interact more directly with the internet as a whole and experience the serendipity that comes with that.

[kuschku]

Then keep your logs for 14 days, and remove IPs from them after 48h.

Tools for that exist, you don't keep unnecessary data, and you're in the clear.