Some third-party cookies were still present, of course. But there was a decrease in third-party content loaded from social media platforms and from content recommendation widgets.
Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers have instead chosen to block European visitors to their sites.
“We can’t say that Facebook is destroying democracy, but then have our newspapers collaborate with them very, very closely, and rely on them for traffic and distribution,” Karin Pettersson, Schibsted’s new director of public policy, said.
We’re seeing what publishers have decided to implement on their websites as of May 25 — whether they’ve decided to block European Union and European Economic Area-based traffic outright, set up buckets of consent for readers to click through, or done something simpler (or nothing new at all).
Wang, Shan. "Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming May 25. How have news publishers prepared?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 May. 2018. Web. 13 Dec. 2024.
APA
Wang, S. (2018, May. 3). Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming May 25. How have news publishers prepared?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 13, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/europes-general-data-protection-regulation-is-coming-may-25-how-have-news-publishers-prepared/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming May 25. How have news publishers prepared?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 3, 2018. Accessed December 13, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/europes-general-data-protection-regulation-is-coming-may-25-how-have-news-publishers-prepared/.
Wikipedia
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