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How do you know if the client has an error and the content was not loaded/displayed as expected? How do you know if placing the content on the right side or the
by XCSme 8y ago
How do you know if the client has an error and the content was not loaded/displayed as expected? How do you know if placing the content on the right side or the left side increases conversion rate by 10% if you don't do A/B testing? There are huge business advantages when you use analytics. You don't care about creepily "tracking" a specific person, you just care about getting better conversion rates and happier users.
- matheusmoreira 8y agoYou may not care about tracking individual people but in order to realize your business advantages you end up doing it anyway. They always put their business needs above those of the users. Increasing conversion rates always trumps user privacy and peace of mind. Claiming businesses care about happy users is just dishonest. They care about bottom line. Business just shouldn't be able to freely collect mountains of information. They can't be trusted to do it responsibly. Collecting data is a privilege and it can be revoked. If they insist on doing it, we'll find a way to avoid sending the data. If they lock us out for not sending data, we'll send fake data.
- boomlinde 8y agoOver all I think that this type of metric has had a significant detrimental effect on the quality of news items. I understand that there is a business advantage to knowing things like this, but I think that there would be much less rage porn and click bait around if this information wasn't known to an entity that can use it to forgo relevant reporting on things that matter and manipulate our tendencies towards morbid curiosity and outrage. I'd go as far as to say that it isn't only unethical to collect this information, but that it's unethical not to take active measures not to share it.