Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36083252-20180704235006/@comment-1038387-20180705044006

Joshua1428 wrote: Echo Spy wrote:

and Monobook somehow violated the new rules GDPR set. Oh really? Just a great old skin violating rules? That's physically and psychologically impossible!

I could explain how, but there's plenty of other threads from a month ago detailing this.

Short version: the forked Monobook was already no longer supported and wasn't going to be around forever. GDPR required an update to the tracking system, and as Monobook was outside the standard tracking set of Oasis, Mercury and Discussions, it would require restarting support and maintaining it. As Monobook has no ads, it doesn't pay for itself. And giving it ads wasn't going to make it pay for itself, as the number of users was very small. It was a business decision.