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19h on March 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of St...

Those 'guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers' redirects on TechCrunch articles when you have an ad-blocker really make me go ballistic.

Is this only for EU users? I can't believe that this would be happening for long if it wasn't... https://i.imgur.com/uQp1yVD.png

tyfon on March 4, 2020 [–]

There are several pages that does this, another one is huffington post. I just don't visit them as I assume what they're doing is hostile to the users.

I'm in the EEA (almost EU) for reference. GDPR is valid here as well.

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