Having spent a good chunk of time implementing cookie permission popups across our sites, Google Analytics showed a drop down to 10% of the normal traffic. (The traffic is a bit higher according to the logs, but not normal. Also as someone else pointed out the funnelling and reporting is harder to decipher)
Putting in an implied statement and removing the pop-up and we're back to the regular levels.
Sorry but this law is flawed and I'm glad its getting a bit of airing again. Come on ICO and the EU peeps who created this directive please rethink this with some expert advice.
Phew, Nostalgia indeed. I looked a Plan 9 back in late 90's when we were doing research for alternative OS's and ways of sharing stuff securely across a network without the cruft of DFS...
It had a lot of promise. What did become of it I wonder?
Coraid ships ATA over ethernet storage based on Plan 9.
Bell Labs still uses plan 9 internally and develops it.
9front is a community fork of Plan 9 with a bunch of interesting changes.
There's a small but interested community of die-hard plan 9'ers that care about it, and the principles it set forth. A lot of it came from some very good, very sane development with people who often spend more time thinking than coding (a virtue we could all benefit from I think)
The NLA in the UK is doing exactly the same thing.
I can't believe the stupidity of this. Basically Newspapers are giving these 'companies' the right to extort money from anyone who links to their news website.
The high court has assured that individuals do not count and scraping from free services like
Google Alerts is ok.
However if you do it in work for a company bigger than 7 people you can be a legitimate target for litigation.
Well the loss of links is going to slap them down the rankings for news stories and their websites overall as anyone with links to their site will have to remove them. Shooting in foot with a shotgun comes to mind.
There is also a case under litigation in the UK and is still unresolved..
If you work for a newspaper make sure your editor understands that the end effect if this jokery continues is that your newspaper website (that you're spending a lot of money on) will plummet in the search engines as people rush in droves to remove links.
Putting in an implied statement and removing the pop-up and we're back to the regular levels.
Sorry but this law is flawed and I'm glad its getting a bit of airing again. Come on ICO and the EU peeps who created this directive please rethink this with some expert advice.