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Well here's some of it. This is what ublock origin has to say about us.hsbc.com: google.com adsrvr.org amazon-adsystem.com appdynamics.com bing.com

• giancarlostoro 7y ago
  They wouldn't put that in the front-end allowing you to block it. It's all in the back-end using third-party services such as Guardian Analytics. Dislcaimer: I briefly worked as a software consultant in the finance industry, that is one of (I'm sure) many out there. You don't want to expose third parties you use for parts of your online banking process. I assume bigger banks homebrew it all.
  • shadowprofile77 7y ago
    But why would this really be? Are they actually attempting to harvest specific user data for HSBC account holder X from all these sources? (something I sure as hell wouldn't want my leaky bank to do no matter what kind of security it promises) Or are these just links for the sake of typical bigcorp bullshit ad tracking attempts.. Any ideas?
    • scrumper 7y ago
      Probably the latter in fairness. But presumably the data from those trackers feeds into the hidden backend heuristics the parent commenter mentioned.
      • shadowprofile77 7y ago
        Yes but if one has many of these disabled or logged out (the social media-type pages in particular) I imagine they couldn't get much for the sake of heuristics data collection anyhow,or if say you log in from a device where none of these accounts are also opened. I can't imagine Facebook openly letting a third party banking site or app scrape up its precious specific user data without first paying for it in "anonymized" form, ditto for Google, so how might that work if the bank was attempting that?
        • giancarlostoro 7y ago
          If you scroll to the bottom of that page for HSBC you will see the typical social media icons. It's likely embedded from those.
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• kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
  HSBC direct is almost as bad. Won't be opening an account with them with that much vulnerability exposure on the site.