Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31293812-20180528030935/@comment-24155515-20180529003717

...Wouldn't right to be forgotten be internal? (Like, wiping your info when you ask such a thing, or however it's done under the law?) What does Monobook in specific have to do with it? If they have to provide the option in one skin only then they could do it the way that there were a few pages where my skin preference wasn't honored before May 25.

Tupka217 wrote: Andrewds1021 wrote: I also thought about that. Why not just disable it for those coming from a European IP? But my guess (since I haven't read the new policies) is that the regulations don't allow for such a work around. Perhaps because it seeks to protect users even when they spoof their IP or because even having the option available still leaves some vulnerability that would violate the new regulations. Again, I don't know; this is just a guess.

Plenty of news sites and online games use geo-blocking (hopefully only temporarily), so it's not impossible altogether. I don't know if it's possible for just a skin, though. Also, just a guess as well.

It's probably possible to remove the ability to select it in preferences (I'm using the fact that Tumblr offers different privacy options based on whether or not you're in Europe now), but they'd probably deem/have deemed doing such a thing not-worth-it.