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Companies choosetoencrypt.com sends information to by embedding them in this page: - Facebook - LinkedIn - Twitter - Google

sheetjs 9y ago
Is it technically possible to add an image/link like "Find us on Twitter" without embedding anything that ultimately requests a Twitter-hosted asset?
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  Yes, you can. But if your message is that social media networks are "privacy villians" then you shouldn't have a Twitter or a link to it in the first place.
  - confounded 9y ago
    Good point, but for people that will have a link anyway, it at least makes service-use consensual.
  - rhizome 9y ago
    That's nice of you to set standards for everybody, but it's still possible to exercise identity separation. FB doesn't know what my Twitter account is any more than HN does.
- thwarted 9y ago
  Huh? <a href="//twitter.com/USERNAME"><img src="twitter-dot-png">Find us on twitter</a> And host twitter-dot-png yourself. (edited to remove autolinking)
- kakarot 9y ago
  It is exceedingly rare in practice.
- Felk 9y ago
  Here's a screenshot of umatrix, showing that it tries to load javascript from those domains: https://imgur.com/bvZzZsX https://imgur.com/bvZzZsX
arca_vorago 9y ago
I wish webdevs would stop this bullshit yesterday. "Bbbut, everyone does it. It's industry sop..."
- godelski 9y ago
  I always love that argument. Because it reminds me when I was 5 and my mom said "Just because everyone else does it doesn't make it right." If your argument is one that a 5 year old is making, you might need to reconsider.
  - zeth___ 9y ago
    If you're not paying, you're the product. Until we outlaw a way to make money, expecting people to morally not use it to is extremely naive. Something a 5 year old would expect in fact. There is a reason why we have police, courts and jails after all.
    - Retra 9y ago
      If you are paying, you might still be the product. Companies have plenty incentive to double dip and extract profit from multiple directions.
  - dictum 9y ago
    You don't get to a 100M+ net worth by following the virtuous advice of your parents.
    - drngdds 9y ago
      Literally no one needs a hundred million dollars
    - arca_vorago 9y ago
      That statement is a thesis paper waiting to happen.
  - eftychis 9y ago
godelski 9y ago
Privacy badger only lists: Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin as trackers. Though I see that it is using google APIs, but PB doesn't think it is tracking. Though interestingly the DDG app says "3 trackers blocked" and only shows twitter being blocked.
tzahola 9y ago
Hypocrites...

sheetjs 9y ago

Is it technically possible to add an image/link like "Find us on Twitter" without embedding anything that ultimately requests a Twitter-hosted asset?

Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
Yes, you can. But if your message is that social media networks are "privacy villians" then you shouldn't have a Twitter or a link to it in the first place.
- confounded 9y ago
  Good point, but for people that will have a link anyway, it at least makes service-use consensual.
- rhizome 9y ago
  That's nice of you to set standards for everybody, but it's still possible to exercise identity separation. FB doesn't know what my Twitter account is any more than HN does.
thwarted 9y ago
Huh? <a href="//twitter.com/USERNAME"><img src="twitter-dot-png">Find us on twitter</a> And host twitter-dot-png yourself. (edited to remove autolinking)
kakarot 9y ago
It is exceedingly rare in practice.
Felk 9y ago
Here's a screenshot of umatrix, showing that it tries to load javascript from those domains: https://imgur.com/bvZzZsX https://imgur.com/bvZzZsX

arca_vorago 9y ago

I wish webdevs would stop this bullshit yesterday. "Bbbut, everyone does it. It's industry sop..."

godelski 9y ago
I always love that argument. Because it reminds me when I was 5 and my mom said "Just because everyone else does it doesn't make it right." If your argument is one that a 5 year old is making, you might need to reconsider.
- zeth___ 9y ago
  If you're not paying, you're the product. Until we outlaw a way to make money, expecting people to morally not use it to is extremely naive. Something a 5 year old would expect in fact. There is a reason why we have police, courts and jails after all.
  - Retra 9y ago
    If you are paying, you might still be the product. Companies have plenty incentive to double dip and extract profit from multiple directions.
- dictum 9y ago
  You don't get to a 100M+ net worth by following the virtuous advice of your parents.
  - drngdds 9y ago
    Literally no one needs a hundred million dollars
  - arca_vorago 9y ago
    That statement is a thesis paper waiting to happen.
- eftychis 9y ago

godelski 9y ago

Privacy badger only lists: Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin as trackers. Though I see that it is using google APIs, but PB doesn't think it is tracking. Though interestingly the DDG app says "3 trackers blocked" and only shows twitter being blocked.

tzahola 9y ago

Hypocrites...