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but ultimately people on the web prefer not to be tracked. It's curious because most people on the web pay lip service to this preference but their actions typ
by zaphar 11y ago
but ultimately people on the web prefer not to be tracked.
It's curious because most people on the web pay lip service to this preference but their actions typically indicate that they don't really care all that much. The folks on Hacker News are in the minority of users whose actions indicate they truly care.
- codemac 11y agoNah, I think they don't have the time to get up to speed enough to even understand what it means to have their IP tracked, let alone understand the lengths they would have to go to avoid being tracked. Most of my non-technical friends are super concerned, and frequently tell me how scary it is not knowing what to do or how to avoid it. It's an active role the current ad-based industry takes to convince their users that the tracking either doesn't matter or somehow empowers the user, which are both demonstrably false.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoOr it is even worse, in that not being tracked is now a negative so some of us allow ourselves to be tracked enough so that we don't fall foul of not being tracked. Kinda like jobs that look at your social media presence before hiring and consider no such presence to now be a negative.