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It's a little rich to write this complaint on Medium, a site that has been uniquely aggressive about tracking its readers' behavior (it has a script that phones
by idlewords 10y ago
It's a little rich to write this complaint on Medium, a site that has been uniquely aggressive about tracking its readers' behavior (it has a script that phones home with your position on the page, and its URLs abuse the fragment identifier to track who you got the link from).
If you dislike surveillance capitalism enough to write an essay about it, think about where you're publishing it.
- shostack 10y agoThe page position thing I totally get. They don't care about individual data there but they want to identify if content is being fully read. It is a big challenge for any publisher and very important in getting the most engaging content front and center.
- shostack 10y agoThe page position thing I totally get. They don't care about individual data there but they want to identify if content is being fully read. It is a big challenge for any publisher and very important in getting the most engaging content front and center.