<story><title>Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches</title><url>https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/2021/intent-to-issue--25-million-fine-to-disqus-inc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Based on our investigation so far, we believe that Disqus could not rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for tracking across websites, services or devices, profiling and disclosure of personal data for marketing purposes, and that this type of tracking would require consent&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good to see them taking this seriously. I get the impression a lot of sites&amp;#x2F;services make expansive use of the &lt;i&gt;legitimate interest&lt;/i&gt; provision.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches</title><url>https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/2021/intent-to-issue--25-million-fine-to-disqus-inc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>surround</author><text>Try blocking Disqus with uBlock Origin, turns out you probably won&amp;#x27;t miss it&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ||disqus.com^
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You could also try a dynamic filter and disable it on a per-site basis&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * disqus.com * block
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Or try &amp;quot;medium mode&amp;quot; to take care of Disqus and a whole host of other third party resources that track you&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;gorhill&amp;#x2F;uBlock&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Blocking-mode:-medium-mode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;gorhill&amp;#x2F;uBlock&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Blocking-mode:-medium...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>