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How does running analytics on my site impair my ability to talk about what Tim Berners-Lee wants to do for freedom and control? ;-) Yes, I track how popular wh
by rubenverborgh 8y ago
How does running analytics on my site impair my ability to talk about what Tim Berners-Lee wants to do for freedom and control? ;-)
Yes, I track how popular what content is on my site. Motivates me to write more. Please feel free to block trackers; I do that as well.
- amiga-workbench 8y agoHave you considered Piwik or a similar self hosted analytics solution? I don't care if people run Analytics, its just when they go sharing all that data with a third party that it gets troubling.
- rubenverborgh 8y agoYes, I urgently need to migrate; same with Disqus, needs to become Solid.
- rapnie 8y agoPS. It is called Matomo now and at https://matomo.org https://matomo.org
- diminoten 8y agoIt undermines your argument, is what it does. You can talk about it all you want, but as long as you continue to participate in the very thing you rail against, you're going to struggle to be taken seriously.
- rubenverborgh 8y agoThat's not at all how argumentation works :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886753
- diminoten 8y agoThat's exactly how argumentation works...
- rubenverborgh 8y agoYou’re confusing argumentation with perception.
- diminoten 8y agoYou're pretending like arguments live in vacuums. Your use of analytics undermines your argument because it's clear you don't actually believe what you're writing, which means you're not presenting the entire set of facts as you believe and understand them, which means you're lying on some level, either to yourself or to your readers.
- arendtio 8y ago'Actions speak louder than words.' ;-)
- nothrabannosir 8y agoPeople who participate in something are often best positioned to criticise it, because they: A) know how the sausage is made, and B) stand to actually lose something if people believe them, i.e. they are standing by their point in spite of the negative consequences to themselves. People on the dole who argue against (details / implementation of) social security should be taken seriously. Rich people arguing against tax breaks for the wealthy. Programmers against big tech firms. Etc.