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In this case the footer banner is not accessible with an open cookie banner. E.g. German law requires the website owner to have a legal link to the website representative.

In this case, only by consenting to the cookies I could have access to those links.

I filled 2 years ago a few complaints. It took over 1 year for an answer. Basically nothing happened.

The Data Protection Authority are underfunded and understaffed. They try the best with their resources.

Some do some don't.

The GDPR strictly requires an explicit opt-in. So it's reasonable to assume that clicking on 'X' is a rejection. But some website do not accept that as a rejection.

As a European I encounter a lot dark patterns to circumvent privacy laws. Some just ignore your choice and track you. Some don't give you a reject option. Some make it really really annoying (or slow) to reject.

Do you think it's possible to politely ask them on twitter to change? Maybe as a group?

Yes, the ad endpoints are locked right now. Doors are opening on March 15th. I wanted to give this a slow start to have a credible amount of projects to show.

Only ads with the script tag will be included to the ad network.

I run postgresql in the backend. Right now most of the apps logic is written directly as postgres functions.

After experimenting with datalog and mongo I settled with postgres. It's flexible enough for most situations.

Creator here. Tiny ads is my attempt to create a cross site ad network for hackers and side projects.

It's more an experiment than a serious business venture. The idea is simple. We place a little ad on each others page with a link back to ones side project.

It privacy respecting (no user tracking) and will work in the beginning by me judging which project to include into the ad network.

I hope to create a positive sum game and give cool projects a new platform.

(The ad will start showing on March 15th)

I'm building a search engine to find free web services. https://freeplan.app

It's a week old now and I have around 2000 services listed.

This services rose from my own need to understand how to build something as cheap as possible. Working on this gave me the understanding how many services gives you a free plan which is good enough to solve a problem you care.