User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Fandom and Curse Media are joining forces/@comment-32281471-20181213022506/@comment-68.43.208.54-20181220043014

"not possible to bring it into compliance with our updated privacy policy" - basically suggests that some type of tracker was inserted, in fact its almost obvious. now you might say, wait a minute; how could that be...If you use Ghostry (chrome extension) you will know how many trackers are on fandom. from past office hours and other inquiries, we know staff track usage of monobook skin. The easiest way to do this is by inserting a tracker into monobook. Simply put selecting monobook as skin preferences did not count as consent at least legally according to fandom's legal counsel hence it didn't have anything to do with lack of resources compared to compliance with new EU regulations. Its surprising fandom didn't simply email all users using monobook (small set of users) or everyone and simply request consent, they simply took easy way out by killing it.