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Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

No.

Netflix logging your IP is the equivalent of taking a photo of someone in public. Not ideal if you’re into privacy, but it’s a public place, so it’s your problem. YouTube’s Adblock detection is equivalent to patting them down to see if they have a weapon and requiring their ID. The software actively looks for changes, using technology that could detect what extensions you have installed, gather data to profile you better for ads, and monitor what you’re doing in your browser while the tab is open.

Both are ultimately for the same purpose, to prevent people from avoiding to pay them, but methods matter.

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iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Incorrect. gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/ states IP addresses are personal data.

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- speaker_hat@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What’s the email of the privacy committee again?
  
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- MrOxiMoron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wow, so basically blacklisting email sender’s on ip address isn’t allowed either? When is an IP address, an individual and when is it just a machine in the cloud?
  
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  - gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You can. After all the GDPR does not forbid you to not accept to talk to someone.
    
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    charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m not sure that helps much. Blacklisting senders based on their IP is much more commonly (and effectively) done on intermediary servers rather than on the client.
    
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  - Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    GDPR does NOT prohibit storing any information indefinitely if it is required for proper functioning of the service. If the service bans you by IP, they need your IP indefinitely to function properly and GDPR doesn’t apply. Just like you can’t remove yourself from a creditor black list, and it will have a lot more personal information than just an IP address.
    
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  - Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What matters is the association of the IP to a person or account. If you receive spam and block the source IP it’s not personal data. If you create an account on a website and they store your IP to it then it is.
    
    Handling them for necessary technical service protection can also be acceptable without explicit consent as long as it’s limited/temporary (you may be able to handle that without account association in the first place anyway).
    
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