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Show HN: Metomic Contextual Consent – a privacy layer under embedded content

27 pointsby benvanabout 5 years ago

3 comments

rapnieabout 5 years ago
I really like the privacy-first products Metomic is creating, but from this perspective imho the Contextual page should have something like the Metomic footer allowing to navigate to the privacy policy (at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metomic.io&#x2F;privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metomic.io&#x2F;privacy-policy</a> )
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ThePhysicistabout 5 years ago
If you&#x27;re looking for an open-source consent solution there&#x27;s Klaro, which is used by thousands of websites already and is completely free (BSD-licensed):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;klaro.kiprotect.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;klaro.kiprotect.com&#x2F;</a><p>You can easily adapt it to various legislations (GDPR &amp; ePrivacy, CCPA, ...) and customize styling and code. It&#x27;s fully self-hostable and does not require any external resources, it also doesn&#x27;t send any information to third parties. Interactive consent as a feature (what they call contextual consent) is coming soon as well.<p>I like Metomic but I wouldn&#x27;t say it&#x27;s &quot;privacy-first&quot; as they log consent in their backend. This unnecessarily sends user data to a third party. Neither the ePrivacy directive nor the GDPR requires such a thing. I can understand why they want this data as they need to monetize their service, but I think it&#x27;s really pointless as you store a cookie that then allows you to retrieve consent data, which you could just as easily store directly in the cookie as well (which Klaro does). Storing consent directly in a cookie allows the website owner to check it on the server side if required, and to prove that the user was asked for his&#x2F;her consent.<p>Otherwise it seems like a great tool with a good UI!
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rapnieabout 5 years ago
Similar idea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vwochnik.github.io&#x2F;reveal-frame-component&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vwochnik.github.io&#x2F;reveal-frame-component&#x2F;</a>
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