In reply to Miroslav Glavić.

Well, the alternative would be to ask for prior consent to display Gravatar images, which seems kind of ridiculous IMO. So, at that point I'd just disable Gravatar altogether.

I can totally see where you're coming from, but I also think it's a matter of reconsidering which 3rd party services you use. Even more so on the scale you're speaking off.

If a service isn't absolutely, 100% critical for your website/business, then drop it! And if it is, make sure you're certain it respects the privacy of your visitors. If it doesn't, find an alternative!

But that's just my perspective on the situation.

On the other hand, an updated EU-US privacy shield would be nice. That'd give us website owners a bit of breathing room. Sadly, I just don't see that happening -- at least, anytime soon...