Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-22224-20180521161500/@comment-679780-20180522150508

Lift a Sail wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Dammit EU this is why we're brexiting! So we don't have to put up with this crud pressed on everybody else!

And if FANDOM doesn't want to invest effort into appealing to it's older audience then is that the kind of directive the community needs? It's unfair to expect everyone to take change without considering if they even want to.

Heck I'm not saying they should make a replacement from scratch, just adapt Wikipedia's Vector skin. The fact MonoBook was based on wikipedia's old skin is what gave it it's charm.

In fact if it wasn't for Wikipedia we probably never would had Wikia to begin with. Oh, piss off you Europhobic git… Is that why you are Ready Brek-ing? Nothing to do with your xenophobia & desire to chase magical unicorns…

The reality is the new laws are a good thing & GDPR will apply even to the precious isolated UK. As it relates to any company that operates in the EU, which Wikia certainly does.

Stop having such a hissy fit over someone trying to finally give us some control over our data. Or is that 'taking back control' in a way you dislike?

Regarding this thread's original post... The reality is if it does not comply with the policies on not tracking people… That is your fault not the EU’s & to pass on the blame lazily to said organisation is pathetic. You are playing the game morons like Boris Johnson do. It is smegging pathetic of you Wikia & you know it. No, it's nothing to do with our over-stocked hospitals, more immigration than our country can handle, country's own laws be messed with to compensate for EUs interest, places pressed with changes in culture that they are not ready for or the fact that when the Union itself can't budget that all countries have to chip in even if it's inconveniant for their own economy, nothing to do with that. But if it makes you feel any better you can call it "xenophobia" for putting the needs of your own people first if others are showing up just to bum off immigration benefits then by all means, It's cruel to turn away people who need sanctuary but if the said sanctuary is already full then it'll perhaps do more harm than good to let the needy in. My country chose brexit because of the more harm than good EU posed for Britain. Brexit was years a go and EU still haven't let us go. Some countries are just impractical to welcome in half the world. Britain is smaller than Japan and the japanese are barely struggling with overpopulation. Sure Britain once haan empire that took up 2/3 of the world until "Wind of Change" when Britain realised it was more trouble than it worth.

Also, GDPR is a EU regulation (EU) 2016/679 which to sum it up "If you want us to protect your data, you must abide by our Internet feng shui" in which data is monitored, collected and controlled for the safety of the people. Being a regulation, not a directive, means EU can enforce it without the need for national governments to pass.

OneTwoThreeFall wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Dammit EU this is why we're brexiting! So we don't have to put up with this crud pressed on everybody else! As much as it bugs me that the Monobook skin is being discontinued, the EU is definitely not to blame! The new GDPR regulation is an overall good thing, and will finally allow people some level of control over their information (despite what the tracking/advertising companies may think…) online. The GDPR link in original post is not working for me so I have to read Wikipedia's article on it. I'll admit I can't get my head around most of the jargon but by the sound of it it sounds like it mostly emphasizing "control and monitoring of personal information" which honestly sounds less like a privilege if you ask me.

I mean it's suppose to give users freedom and protection of their essential data online, in yet it is regulated that national governments must abide with and Wikia can't be bothered to make MonoBook acceptable for it. My bias and affection for MonoBook totally asside thats a few red flags for me.