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>By the way, if you are a programmer and you implement those sleazy dialogs, think about your life choices. I'm sure this stern talking to really made them eva

• allendoerfer 7y ago
  Working with an analytics team, a sentiment I get is: "We have a contract with [analytics company]. They are not allowed to look at the data." When you suggest that a contract might not be as good as physical limitations hosting it yourself give you, they follow up with something like: "Well, then AWS/Azure/etc. could look at it!" What I found drives the increase of tracking on the web in big corporations, is simply the number of teams, who want data. Data is used to play internal politics. And it is easier to get a new vendor in, than to get data from a hostile team.
• aguyfromnb 7y ago
  >We need more people on HN to take a stand like this, downvotes be damned. As the funding dries up the community will close ranks even more so. We are already getting to the point on this forum where anything not outwardly positive (not even "negative") said about certain subjects is instantly donwvoted. Being as how downvoting is something that requires 500 karma, these are not bots or spam accounts; they are veteran members, preventing balanced discourse from occurring ("slow down").
  • 3733782263 7y ago
    I'd say we're well past that point. I gave up ages ago and just spam throwaways now. Dang says it undermines the sense of community when people do that, I think the community already does a fine job of undermining itself.