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The NYT's fancy new 'Privacy Project' page is stuffed with tracking scripts
- Nicksil 8y agoThe folks involved in the project very likely had nothing to do with the business side of the New York Times website; as well as likely to have the ability to turn off site-wide embedded snippets of code.
- brokentone 8y agoWell this is the whole point of privacy, right? Individuals or teams may have a perspective, but the business ultimately wins.
- asap36 8y agoThe publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, specifically addressed that "hypocracy" in a well written article on the NYT privacy project site: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-york-times-privacy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-yo...
- rchaud 8y agoLooking at the screenshot, it's not clear which elements on the console are trackers. Why not just paste a screenshot of Ghostery, which shows the exact names of the tracking cookies in an easy to read panel? Given the context, I hope NYT recognizes the irony and at least tries to practice a less intrusive analytics strategy.
- chadlavi 8y agoSo is every page on every major paper's site