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One of the usual arguments about why people adblock is tracking. These people don't use Chrome anyway.
by cronjobber 10y ago
One of the usual arguments about why people adblock is tracking. These people don't use Chrome anyway.
- tombrossman 10y agoTracking is the primary reason I use an ad blocker. The ads themselves aren't that obtrusive to me since I won't install Adobe Flash and I use NoScript and Privacy Badger with Firefox. Even using someone else's machine I can tune ads out pretty quickly and focus on the page content. Troy uses Google Analytics on his site and has no privacy policy which means his site does not comply with the Google Analytics' Terms of Service.[0] When I queried this on social media, he dismissed it as 'legal arse covering'[1] and indicates to me that while he's undoubtedly a bright and talented guy, he still doesn't 'get it' when it comes to privacy. Not at all. Not everyone is wearing a tinfoil hat and worried that the big bad NSA is coming to drone them. Many of us are far more more concerned about corporate surveillance and data brokers tracking our online activity. [0]https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html [1]https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/651723191144976384 https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/651723191144976384 (Note I have a cronjob deleting most Tweets 30+ days old so my replies in that thread are gone. Old tweets are worthless and I see no need to preserve them...)