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How does this not reduce to hitting any server not owned by you is leaking your IP address?

If I host my website behind Google Cloud CDN they have logs of the visitors IP. If I host my site on S3 they log the IP.

Does this mean that a visitor must insteract only with services that I own until I can get concent to use "unnecessary" third party services?

I think it is pretty significant if "necessary" is reduced to "could have don't it without". Because sure I could avoid Google Fonts, but now I need to do splitting and per-browser detection myself. Ok sure, browser font support is pretty consistent these days and I know my site just uses English and emoji in some pages. But now I can't throw that site in cloud storage. I also can't use a VPS because there are traffic logs. So I buy a server in a datacenter. But what if they have some form of traffic logs? I guess my question is where does this definition of "unnecessary" stop.



That‘s what it reduces to, yes, and german courts seem set on actually creating precedents [0] for that dreadful situation.

[0] https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/insights-and-events/insight...


The core issue with the linked situations is that the US Cloud Act applies, which means that US governmental agencies can request access to i.e. traffic logs, without a court order for mass surveillance.




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