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>4chan isn't selling your identity to data scientists That's actually questionable now since Hiroshima bought the site. Some weird scripts were added that were
by tomatotomato37 8y ago
>4chan isn't selling your identity to data scientists
That's actually questionable now since Hiroshima bought the site. Some weird scripts were added that were heavily obfuscated and killed the CSS if you didn't let them run. Luckily the innate computer paranoia of /g/ meant this was caught and worked around in less than a day, but it's still pretty sleazy.
Also Google captcha is needed to post, so there are the standard two Google scripts running too
- qop 8y agoA little ad-tracking here and there isn't necessarily foul play. Sleazy, sure. That's not the same as unfettered, cataclysmic access to tens of millions of users personal lives. I think what makes the Facebook thing so awful too is that people have a rather reasonable expectation that private things remain private, whereas the average 4chan user maintains some degree of privacy by merit of not identifying themselves. If it really came to it and if there was a concerted effort to at least maintain some integrity of the identifiability of what got collected, most 4chan users wouldn't leave the platform if there was a basic ad-tracking layer built. 4chan needs money, they all know that. Sometimes you gotta play the game a little bit, if it was done right, they'd play. Disclaimer: I'm not a data scientist, so I'm not really an expert here...
- tomatotomato37 8y agoI think there was talk of the scripts actually running exploits, so they were more than a bit sleazy; that being said I believe they came with the new ads so it wasn't a conscious addition by the new owner as much as shitty ad companies Overall though I believe most of the money comes from the 4chan pass system over whatever ads end up getting run