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I think it's more likely that "to make Medium make money," they engage in tracking for advertising purposes. Medium works perfectly well for my purposes withou
by dpwm 8y ago
I think it's more likely that "to make Medium make money," they engage in tracking for advertising purposes.
Medium works perfectly well for my purposes without that banner being displayed. I can open up developer tools and delete that node.
If I don't click agree, does that mean that this information isn't collected? Because tracking cookies are still placed.
Now what is interesting is that I don't remember being asked for consent for them to place a cookie to log the number of articles I read in a month as part of their sign-up funnel.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> Now what is interesting is that I don't remember being asked for consent for them to place a cookie to log the number of articles I read in a month as part of their sign-up funnel. They could probably make this compliant by storing the counter in your local storage and never sending it anywhere - just having a piece of JS that essentially does: if(Storage.getItem("visits") > 6) { displaySignnupPopup(); }
- chopin 8y agoI block JS wherever I can, though.
- netsharc 8y agoAh, when I used to bother with Proxomitron (https://www.proxomitron.info/ https://www.proxomitron.info/), I could rewrite anything that went "over the wire" because it acts as a HTTP-proxy listening at localhost. I remember modifying Javascript lines so adding my own code was possible... One could add an SSL library and basically MITM HTTPS connections, but I never tried that.