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Comment by Symbiote

8 years ago

> your data is sold

It's now easier to see some of this, with the GDPR rules.

The Gitlab cookie page lists 80 "marketing" cookies which may be set: https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/cookies/

Wow. On the one hand I'm impressed with the openness (almost - what does purpose='unclassified' mean?), as well as the option to elect which cookie category I agree to. On the other hand... my, that's a lot of tracking!

  • Something similar (sometimes exactly this interface) is shown on about every third newly visited website I look at from the EU, since 25 May.

    If you don't see this, it could be informative to use a British or Irish VPN (to keep an English language default) for a day or two.