esya

The more I look into this, the shadier it seems.

They're selling at a whooping $79/month, a single php script that does not even check any sort of authentication or API key, and only does a dumb lookup against a GeoIP database : https://gdpr-shield.io/check.php

And this is called by this tiny javascript script https://code.gdpr-shield.io/script.js that just.. displays an overlay div when you're in the EU. Smells like scam when you're willing to sell a whole product that can be coded in 20 minutes for up to $1000 a year.

Yep, it's copy pasted from https://buffer.com/terms

He's running a really shady business.

niko001 / Niklaus or whatever. This is extremely shady. You've copy pasted your whole terms and conditions from this page :

https://buffer.com/terms VS: https://gdpr-shield.io/terms - Saved here https://web.archive.org/web/20180504020320/https://gdpr-shie... for good measure

Which is illegal to begin with. You even forgot to replace the part that explains what the service does and left the part that says that gdpr shield "provides a social media management tool".

You're selling something that just basically does a geoip lookup, and then tries to block people from an entire continent, with pure JS, which can be easily avoided, by the way. I'm shooting buffer an email to let them know you're infringing on their legal material.

Nope, I'm sorry but their terms and conditions are aweful, and do not protect you at all.

Hint hint - China! Those damn ICP licenses!

http://www.windows93.net/c/apps.js

Gateway Anti-Virus Alert

This request is blocked by the SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus Service. Name: GriYo (Trojan)

This could be a false positive, but thought I'd spread the word, I was wondering why it wasnt loading.. Will have a look at that JS and see if it's trying to leverage some browser exploits somehow.

This is from 2012 as others pointed, but also if you go to Google's transparency report now, there is nothing after 2012 for India. Not sure why this is trending.

How does this work with plugin managers such as Vundle/Pathogen?

Hey Geo, if you read this, congrats :)

Tristan