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@KingOfCoders / amazingcto you wrote `Indeed, as an American, there is no need to force them onto you.` - I feel like that suggests some assumptions about PG here that might not be quite correct. Since PG's often in the UK, his place of birth and where he has a residence, he's sometimes in a place that has GDPR obligations, he'll likely be exposed to the full GDPR vs analytics annoyances that IP addresses, email addresses, trackers, and the data protection make likely. I've no idea what internet use would be like in the US though (I haven't surfed via the US for ages though so don't know what the geo-targetted and account targetted consent differences are). PG likely both benefits and suffers from being in multiple jurisdictions. As for his personal identity, with terms like American and British, he might identify with both, but he did write "Keep Your Identity Small" so he might even prefer neither label, I don't know. Regardless, yes there could be better ways at a protocol level, maybe the EU should have foresaw that rather that the noise which we have now. Guess we'll have ML agents to handle it for us soon.


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