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Re: [paho-dev] Website update to the Eclipse Solstice Theme - any volunteers to help?

Hmm, I thought those were supposed to have been removed.  I'll look into it.  How did you check for the third-party references? (Looking at the page source?)

Ian

On 18/06/2019 14:27, Greg Troxel wrote:
Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

thanks for the input.  The main motivation I had for including the
Twitter feed was to make the web page more dynamic and useful with
frequently updated information, which wasn't an extra overhead to
maintain.
Thanks for taking my ranting seriously.

I presume we could have our own widget which subscribed in some way to
a Twitter feed, perhaps though our own (MQTT) intermediary.  Would
that be better?
Yes - I don't object to the content or the dynamic nature at all.  It is
only having the user's browser contact an advertising company that
bothers me.  So if the content is hosted at some eclipse.org site, and
fetched from there, then that seems fine.  That is what I was getting at
with mastodon, which seems (not having done it) to be the easiest path.

Looking at https://www.eclipse.org/paho/ now, I see that there are
currently third-party reference to

   platform.twitter.com
   cdn.syndication.twitter.com
   www.google-analytics.com

I am not an expert on GDPR compliance, but I suspect that people that
allow their browsers to load third-party resources would get tracking
cookies from at least some of those.

I also realize that what the paho page is doing is not unusual.

--
Ian Craggs
icraggs@xxxxxxxxxx                 IBM United Kingdom
Eclipse Paho Project Lead & Mosquitto Committer



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