Remove or serve locally default profile avatar

+1 This is necessary under GDPR, otherwise you have to hide the review widget until someone provides consent.

Hi,

When this image is loading the plugin does not pass any personal information to Google, it’s also does not use any Cookies and according to this it does not have any relation to GDPR.

@dimensiondigitalnet please tell me why you need to make this image locally to better understand the issue.

Thanks!

@dimensiondigitalnet I figured out a solution. You need to use the generated shortcode to insert the widget and then manually edit the shortcode. I downloaded the image and changed the “place_photo” paramater of the generated shortcode to a locally hosted image, so this part:
[grw place_photo=”https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/…” … ]
becomes
[grw place_photo=”https://mywebsite/wp-content/…” …]

Then it no longer loads any external content.

@richplugins I agree IP addresses should not be viewed as private information and it is a stupid interpretation of the GDPR, but many people in Germany are currently being sued and fined for exactly this type of thing – loading external content from Google servers without prior consent. So unfortunately this is the current state of the law that we need to adapt to.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by joegestalt.

Hi @joegestalt,

Thank you for a solution!

FYI, at the moment the plugin is absolutely GDPR compatible, there’s no any external web calls. The plugin saves G user avatars locally.

Thanks!