It's quite popular to use https://shields.io to add #Badges to your README in #git code repositories, and in many other places.
This makes #Shields potentially a #tracker. I just noticed that the shields website does not have a #privacy policy. Given the service it provides it is required to have one for #GDPR-compliance. They do use 3rd-party services that need mentioning. The issue to add a PP is still open since 2019:
There's an open issue about this, GitHub proxies the images and as such Shields.io doesn't get your information (according to a comment on the open issue), so that's at least something
Though, I think you know this, as there's a comment from an hour ago 🤔
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