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Keeping a reliable counter of meaningful interactions is hard without personal data to correlate unique users.
by JeremyBanks 8y ago
Keeping a reliable counter of meaningful interactions is hard without personal data to correlate unique users.
- dbasedweeb 8y agoOk, so it’s hard. Nobody is entitled to that being easy in the way that they are to privacy.
- jimktrains2 8y agoWhat privacy? Knowing that user dhsidhujdjdowhdyyehheis is using my website is not an infringement on your privacy! Why do you think you can control what I do with data you send to me? Don't send me data I'd you don't want me to have it.
- icebraining 8y agoWhy do you think you can control what I do with data you send to me? Are you really interested in rehashing this conversation? You got plenty of answers last time¹, I doubt you'll get new ones ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16957978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16957978
- jimktrains2 8y agoObviously no one said anything convining. Sure, it's law under the gdpr and I'll comply. That doesn't mean I think it's a reasonable law.
- icebraining 8y agoI'm just saying there's no point starting over, you'll just get the same kind of responses. You should preempt them if you're hoping to get anything new. Though I doubt you'll get it anyway.
- tomrod 8y ago> Why do you think you can control what I do with data you send to me? Legal protections, like the GDPR.
- tzahola 8y agoWhy do you think I can’t photograph your face? Don’t reflect light in my direction if you don’t want me having pictures of you!
- wilsonnb 8y agoI agree with this perspective. I haven't seen anyone present a compelling case as to why a person should own all data about themselves.
- fapjacks 8y agoYou would if you could see what the military does with data about people.
- datenwolf 8y ago> Keeping a reliable counter of meaningful interactions is hard without personal data to correlate unique users. It's hard if visitor numbers would directly translate into revenue or similar. The trouble you're running in then is discerning organic hits from clickfarming. If all you care about is when, where what content is popular on your website, there's a pretty simple method: Tally 200 and 304 responses. 200 tells you how many visits you get. 304 tells you, how often people hit refresh, or re-visit your page within the expiration time of the URL that 304s. Also there's little value in identifying individual visitors. Getting a coarse idea where visitors are located in the world might be nice (for a regional news outlet for example). So just slap some coarse grained. GeoIP on it.