Yeah, of course. But also of course, when I was speaking earlier, I was clearly talking about their other use. I understand when people say "what have you got to worry about", but imo, privacy is a right and we should never lightly give up any of our rights.
As a user I want maximum privacy. As a website operator I want to know a bit about people that are visiting, so obviously I am torn!
We have 2 main issues on RTG. I want to be able to track bad users and spammers so I can stop them signing up again after banning them. The new legislation effectively prevents this.
Secondly, not many businesses want to advertise on a footy forum, but actually quite a lot of advertisers want to directly target the people who visit here if they know something about them.
Advertising revenue has been hit badly as they no longer know enough to target you. Facebook and Google are the big winners here as you generally have to logon to their sites/systems, they know all about you (and your friends) and sell their own advertising directly.
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