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      • ruaok
        in fact, I'm actually not really ready yet.
      • anshuman73
        Freso: ahh sorry
      • ruaok
        leave for next week, I'd say.
      • Freso
        ruaok: We can skip to cookies instead?
      • Leo_Verto
        Freso, perhaps a student introduction thread on the forums would be useful?
      • chirlu
        Leo_Verto: According to caniuse, Firefox 38 has 0.08% user base.
      • ruaok
        let's.
      • TOPIC: MetaBrainz Community and Development channel | MusicBrainz non-development: #musicbrainz | MeB meeting agenda: EU & cookies (ruaok)
      • Freso
        ruaok: EU & cookies!
      • ruaok
        so, we still have a pile of things to do before we can be in the clear wrt to cookies.
      • Freso
        Leo_Verto: I was thinking to maybe have a "beginner's task" to have them come on the forum and say hi.
      • But again, talk after meeting/in 8 minutes. :)
      • ruaok
        if we read the documentation very strictly, we would need to have one of those stupid cookie messages now that we we are hosted in the EU.
      • chirlu
        (Note: Technically, hosting country is irrelevant – target audience is relevant. So not actually a change.)
      • ruaok
        we can't be free an clear just yet. Google Analytics as well as a couple of other aspects sink our being able to circumvent this rule altogether.
      • ah, interesting.
      • I'm certain a lot of web pages in the world are breaking that rule for their EU visitors then
      • do we know if anyone has ever been sued or otherwise gotten into trouble?
      • chirlu
        Yes, I believe Spain, Germany and (at times) the UK were trying to enforce it.
      • ruaok
        my feeling is that we should bring our cookie documentation up to date.
      • zas
        And France, never last to enforce stupid things
      • Freso
        There were apparently some fines in 2014.
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      • ruaok
        and add a message where people can find our cookies statement.
      • Leo_Verto
        apparently some cookies are exempt from that law, notable cookies "used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication, and strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly required by the user to provide that service."
      • ruaok
        but not go as far as actually putting up a banner and requiring people to click ok.
      • chirlu
        Leo_Verto: Yes, we know.
      • ruaok
        that is another question: if a site does not meet the notification free cookie policy, what notification MUST be given?
      • is it imperative that a user click a button to acknowledge that?
      • chirlu: do you know?
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      • chirlu
        That would mean that it had to be on every single page, and without click, no way to dismiss it.
      • ruaok
        I think we should do everything necessary to come clear on our cookies, but not add the stupid message.
      • Freso
        But when you click, you store a cooking saying that you've clicked "OK"!
      • yvanz
        Piwik is recommended by CNIL (French authority) regarding cookies and privacy. More info on exemptions: http://piwik.org/blog/2014/10/cnil-recommends-p...
      • ruaok
        what if it was in the footer?
      • Freso
        *cookie
      • ruaok
        Freso: yes, that means that you are ok with cookies, so that is ok.
      • chirlu
        Probably too inconspicuous.
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      • ruaok
        yvanz: yep, that is already on the radar as a GA alternative.
      • Leo_Verto
        well, the cookie message seems quite commonplace nowadays, I don't think it'd be too annoying
      • chirlu
        You can have implicit consent (“if you continue to use the site, we’ll store cookies”).
      • ruaok
        well, given that we're out of time, I would like to solicit feedback on how to do a cookie message that doesn't suck ass.
      • yvanz
        ruaok: More important, “first party analytics” are “exempt from the Cookie Consent rule”
      • chirlu
        But the user must actually take in the message.
      • ruaok
        yvanz: yes, understood.
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      • we are not currently discussing the nuances of getting around this requirement. we understand that fairly well.
      • so, the challenge then is: how to we make a cookie message that isn't annoying as fuck?
      • Freso
        Do we store any session cookies when people aren't logged in?
      • ruaok
        Freso: fin. we'll get back to this next week again.
      • Freso
        Right, sure.
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      • then :)
      • TOPIC: MetaBrainz Community and Development channel | MusicBrainz non-development: #musicbrainz | MeB meeting agenda: reviews, MB supported browsers (chirlu), dev priorities (ruaok), EU & cookies (ruaok)
      • ruaok
        Freso: I forget.
      • Freso
        Thanks for your time!
      • chirlu
        Freso: I’m not sure, actually, but we do store configuration cookies.
      • And GA of course.
      • Freso
        Yeah.
      • chirlu
        (And permanent configuration cookies aren’t exempt.)
      • gcilou
        Is there any way that running install.sh could completely take down my computer or is it most likely unrelated?
      • yvanz
        I suggest the banner “We made a cookie to feed our flock of pink unicorns, thank you for your understanding.”
      • ruaok
        :-D
      • Freso
        But we're maybe going to get rid of GA, I think(?). Not sure about the config. cookie though.)
      • ruaok
        most powerful of unicorns at that!!
      • Freso: yep, that is where we stand. we can't cleanly circumvent the EU rules.
      • Freso
        anshuman73: Hi again! Did you have a question before?
      • ruaok: :'(
      • Anyway, as long as we can make it easy for cooking blocking rules to block the notice, I'm good.
      • *cookie
      • gcilou: And yes, go ahead and add whatever tasks. I trust you to be reasonable. :)
      • (And I need to look them over before they're published anyway.)
      • gcilou
        Freso: haha thanks :)
      • anshuman73|mob
        Freso: nope, i was just mentioning that I can't claim tasks yet, but Im working on one. I hope thats not an issue
      • Freso
        anshuman73|mob: Are you Tigran?
      • anshuman73|mob
        No, anshuman73 on his phone
      • Sorry for the nick shift, just put away my laptop and didnt want to turn it on again
      • bitmap
      • Freso
        anshuman73|mob: Okay. Well, if someone claims the task, they'll get the credit. (Someone named Tigran has claimed one of the beets tasks, that's why I asked.)
      • anshuman73|mob: Also, I'm fairly sure you should be able to claim tasks - you just won't be able to get the task approved/closed until your paperwork is done.
      • Or maybe you need to submit before you can claim, and then it needs to be approved before tasks can be closed?
      • anshuman73|mob
        Ahh. Thats okay. I never really cared about " tasks " on GCI. I come here every year mostly to learn :)
      • bitmap
        I ignored firefox 12 and some chrome 22 versions
      • Freso
        anshuman73|mob: ❤️
      • glennren
        anshuman73: Hi! :)
      • gcilou
        ah yay the computer is working again
      • anshuman73|mob
        No, its just that it was too late to wake my parents up to even sign the thing, its 2:30 am atm in my place
      • Freso ^
      • Freso
        bitmap: No Edge! 🙌
      • Or is that MSIE 11-or-newer?
      • bitmap
        chrome 16, 21, 25 have shares above 0.5%
      • (not 22)
      • Freso
        anshuman73|mob: :)
      • anshuman73|mob
        Freso So i havent even submitted a request for parents consent thus the inability to claim tasks
      • bitmap
        oh, I forgot edge
      • updated to add Edge 13 or newer
      • anshuman73|mob
        glennren, Hey ! (Same person as anshuman73 here)
      • Freso
        anshuman73|mob: Right, yeah.
      • bitmap: Aw. :(
      • I think it would be fine to... forget Edge.
      • (And MSIE.)
      • anshuman73|mob: Just get it done ASAP in the morning! ;)
      • Freso will try and get some sleep tonight
      • bitmap
        well, IE11 has 4.72% which is the 4th highest share of any browser version
      • anshuman73|mob
        Freso, sure !
      • chirlu
        Edge mostly isn’t that bad, actually. It’s just a small bit behind the curve.
      • Freso is just anti-MS'ing :)
      • bitmap
        Edge 13 has 1.90% and 14 has 1.20%
      • chirlu
        And IE11, well, I gues we’ll have to live with it.
      • But hey, it does support SVG!
      • Freso
        :)
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      • My girlfriend uses IE.
      • chirlu
        (In contrast to some earlier versions. So some users of still-“supported browsers” can’t actually see the MB logo.)
      • Freso
        I should make that my goal for the Dec/Jan visit to convince her to switch to something else.
      • bitmap
        I guess supporting opera 39 is ok if it uses chromium 52 http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/09/oper...
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      • chirlu
        bitmap: I’m comparing the versions to http://caniuse.com/usage-table and am a bit surprised regarding Chrome and Firefox. The versions seem to be off by one …
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      • E.g., FF 44 has 0.08% on caniuse.
      • Freso
        Chrome and Chromium's versioning run parallel, right? So Chrome 52 ~= Chromium 52?
      • chirlu
        FF 45 is the current ESR.
      • bitmap
        I see FF 44 with 1.00% in the stats, compared to 0.62% for 45
      • Freso
        Is some kind of Ubuntu or Debian still on 44?
      • bitmap
        47 is the most common version with 5.65%
      • chirlu
        Strange. Perhaps there is a single high-profile user still at FF 44 for some reason.
      • Freso
        I wonder if 44 is the one CatQuest is using maybe?
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      • Pre-45 isn't supported upstream.
      • chirlu
        Yes, because 45 is the ESR. :)
      • bitmap
        16,538 New Users ("The number of first-time users during the selected date range.")
      • chirlu
        It’s the only non-current release supported by Mozilla.
      • bitmap
        (that's for 44 only)
      • chirlu
        Hm.
      • bitmap
        (our #1 browser, chrome 51, has 100,069 New Users)
      • Freso
        Is there anything not in 44 but in everything else that we really want to use?
      • chirlu
        But it won’t matter much in practice. I looked up some newer HTML/CSS features recently, and it mostly was “not supported by MSIE before 10/11/not at all” “supported by FF/Chrome since eternities”.
      • *vs.
      • Freso
        (Because if not, we might as well keep it another ~half a year.)
      • chirlu
        Yeah, I’m mostly just curious about the strange results.
      • Freso
        chirlu: At least we get to bump MSIE to 11. :)
      • chirlu
        Yes, that’s really good news.
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      • Although it *still* doesn’t support a lot of things that are standard everywhere else.
      • Freso
        (I already said I'd be happy to drop support for it completely. :p (But I also understand why it might not be a good idea... yet.))
      • chirlu
        E.g. flexboxes are nominally supported, but there are so many bugs in the implementation that it is unusable in practice.