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		Vespasian on Jan 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Googl... If there are different means to host the asset and the hot linking would transfer data out of the EU (in particular to the US and to a giant marketing company) that might be problematic.

mro_name on Jan 30, 2022 [–]

Traffic inside or outside EU is marginal. It's just illegal from the start. You need prior informed consent and it must be optional.

If it is not technically necessary. And a CDN rarely is. I can show you some sites that do without.

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