I didn't find the response strong at all. It was far less strong than the initial attack on his adding a referral link in the first place. A referral link is

I didn't find the response strong at all. It was far less strong than the initial attack on his adding a referral link in the first place. A referral link is (arguably, again, opinions here ;) ) much cleaner and more transparent than having your analytics data being pushed out to a dossier tracking your behavior, emotions, and extrapolating patterns on the two. You can hover your cursor on a referral link to see what it is. You can even open up a Javascript console and see where the true location of any given link is taking you to, should you click on it. You can't see what's being done with third party gathering information about you. And funnily (read: ironically) enough, its the entire point of this software in the first place. I repeat that I'm confused about the concern over this minutiae considering the fact that when you go look up something online, someone is getting paid in some way, shape, or form. I don't mean to come off strong, and I apologize if you took it in that way. A referrer gets paid in creation of a consumer whereas an advertising company gets paid as a spy, essentially. Using Amazon as an example, isn't the purpose of the service to sell you something? Instead of selling you as a product?[0] [0] https://medium.com/@unsetbit/dear-amazon-you-dropped-something-fc82375a5bb0 https://medium.com/@unsetbit/dear-amazon-you-dropped-somethi...