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Good that it is absolutely not an one-sided article, favoring the viewpoint of the union exclusively. Garnered with some anecdotes of somebody having had an accident on the job once, or people sometimes not having assignments, to make it all seem oh so horrible.

I would guess a lot of these Couriers are quite happy with their existence. It enables them to earn some money on the side, while they try to become starving artists or whatever.

In any case, the cure for worker exploitation is not more rules. It is creating more jobs. Then workers with bad jobs can simply switch to a better job.

I think it probably went like this: a new feature (hard shells) was discovered by evolution, which gave so much advantage that all sorts of varieties could coexist for a while (even sub-optimal ones, as they still had the advantage over old organisms). Eventually, some winners among the organisms emerge, the advantage disappears and the sub-optimal variations begin to die out.

I like to compare it to the evolution of computer games. When they became viable first (home computer revolution), an incredible amount of games was developed. Eventually doom arrived on the scene and every game became a 1st person shooter. (Simplified story, of course). Or the dot com boom maybe - for a while, money was thrown at everything internet related. After a while some winning concepts emerged, and most of the contenders went away again.

OK, but explicit in what sense? Does it have to refer to the GDPR, as in "I agree my dta will be stored according to GDPR"? I must admit I have trouble understanding it - how could anybody sign up anywhere without data being stored?

Sure, not saying you can't use Google Analytics, just that my choice is to remove it.

I think it can simply be GDPR compliant if you inform your users that you are saving that data in your database, and they give you the explicit OK to do to. Explicit consent meaning they tick a checkbox saying "I understand that page x is saving the data y in a database and I am OK with it".

If you have a site where users can make posts, I'd say they pretty much give you consent by signing up. IANAL, though.

Personally, I'll activate anonymization of ip addresses in my logs coming next week. There are various solutions for that available.

I think you can also log the ip, you just have to get your user's explicit consent.

I will also remove Google Analytics, and switch AdSense to contextual ads. I am a bit worried about the latter step, but if the losses are too great I can still try to get consent from my visitors and switch to personalized ads again. As for Google Analytics, I never did get that much out of it, but perhaps I should have used it more. I never activated the "deep personalization" options in GA to begin with.

It bothers me to pester my visitors with consent popups. On the other hand, looking at what Google proposes for compliant AdSense, it also bothers me that apparently multiple companies get to track my users if I enable personalized ads. I wasn't really aware of that, and just accepted Google as tracking because they know everything anyway.

So much as I dislike the new privacy laws, at least the made me reconsider my AdSense settings.