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> Why is modern web development so complicated? Although lots of cool stuff is possible, I suspect that very often, it's about profiling and tracking users, an
by mirimir 7y ago
> Why is modern web development so complicated?
Although lots of cool stuff is possible, I suspect that very often, it's about profiling and tracking users, and not about delivering content. That's certainly my experience as a user. I routinely browse sites that call resources from numerous sites, and want to run multiple scripts. And all they're ostensibly doing is displaying some text and images.
- bpicolo 7y agoIronically, many actions are drastically easier to track on the server side. Frontend pageview tracking is trivially knocked out by ad block. Backend pageview tracking is impossible to block.
- mirimir 7y agoTrue. But lots of third-party tracking is harder, right?
- bpicolo 7y agoWouldn't say that. With something like Segment it's easy to shovel data from the backend to any analytics provider you can think of. The majority of analytics providers have a REST api of some sort.
- mirimir 7y agoSorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that, without 3rd-party cookies, tracking is harder. And I'm assuming that users who block scripts also block 3rd-party cookies.