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Genuine question, why don't companies proxy tracker data through a single host that the app also depends on to serve data? That way it wouldn't be possible for
by xvector 6y ago
Genuine question, why don't companies proxy tracker data through a single host that the app also depends on to serve data?
That way it wouldn't be possible for users to block individual hosts to prevent tracking. I guess it's not worth the effort though because laypeople won't care either way?
- cleverpebble 6y agoMost trackers are 3rd parties that require you to go through their hosts. Additionally, these trackers are usually picked out by business analysts / product managers on different teams - so marketing my have their own tracking solution, sales might have their own, and engineering might have their own. Tends to be faster/easier to plop javascript on a page than engineering your own tracking/analytics pipeline at early stage startups
- Xorlev 6y ago> Additionally, these trackers are usually picked out by business analysts / product managers on different teams This. I remember at my last company, we ended up with 8 or 9 different analytics tools all getting different data and showing one or two "cool views" the PM had put together. It's such a big problem that solutions like segment.io exist to broker your events to N different downstream solutions. Truly, this is the darkest timeline.
- gitgud 6y agoThey aren't proxy'd because advertisers want to ensure they control the domain and can verify requests are going to it, without having to trust the content provider. Some content providers don't allow you to view content if you block the advertising hosts. Then it becomes a matter how you want to deal with failure, do you want the site to break if your ads don't load?
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