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.
The pricing is actually cheaper than "bare" geolocation APIs, which don't do the blocking-part. Have a look at https://ipstack.com/product for example.
If you get a quote from an experienced data protection lawyer for GDPR compliance, GDPR Shield will be an order of magnitude cheaper in the long run. There's a real risk of getting sued / getting cease and desist letters from predatory law firms who aim to collect fees for small mistakes in your privacy policy.
You're making assumptions about how the service works, which happen to be wrong. Even if they were true, the time it takes to develop something isn't a measure of the value it provides.
>There's a real risk of getting sued / getting cease and desist letters from predatory law firms who aim to collect fees for small mistakes in your privacy policy.
What do you base that assesment on? GDPR mostly just consolidates multiple privacy laws into one.
> There's a real risk of getting sued / getting cease and desist letters from predatory law firms who aim to collect fees for small mistakes in your privacy policy
I get that you're trying to sell your 'service', but that's just pure FUD.
What exactly could 'predatory law firms' sue you for? Not complying with the letter of the GDPR? The GDPR is for EU authorities to take action where deemed necessary - not law firms.
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.
So you're saying that a service which targets businesses who are trying to avoid a piece of legislation that is shaping up to become a worldwide industry standard turns out to be shady and doesn't respect the law? Well I never.
Copying legal documents isn't illegal, and in fact many lawyers will just run a search & replace on an existing client's T&C to generate a new T&C. This is also how T&C generator websites work. It's actually recommended, as then you have standardized language that is all well-defined in the eyes of the courts.
You are going to have to do a better job of backing that claim up. It certainly seems to be an obvious breach of intellectual property law at the very least. Citing that some lawyers do this does not automatically make it legal.
My initial claim is perhaps a bit too strong. Case law is basically that the unique portions of a T&C or other contract are protected by copyright law, but boilerplate terms that have appeared in lots of different firms' documents are considered public domain.
That's only through section 4, but so far every clause is legal boilerplate except for the first paragraph of section 4, which is unique to ShareKit (and ThreadRadar, another product by the same entrepreneur).
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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.
That assumes you're using submodules or subtree as your versioning mechanism. If you're using vundle/neobundle, does it do the magic of running the bootstrap to download your bundles from the internet?
No, it does not run :BundleInstall for you. Maybe it would be a good idea if the user could specify some commands to run after downloading a profile. For example they could add a line in their .vimrc:
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.