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TBH I'd be likely to accept this. I have no issues sharing reasonable statistics about me. What I'm personally against is: 1. Sharing them with Google, trough

TBH I'd be likely to accept this. I have no issues sharing reasonable statistics about me. What I'm personally against is: 1. Sharing them with Google, trough GA 2. Sharing PII. I have zero faith in big commercial sites. They'll likely try their hardest to fingerprint me, and track my every move across the web. You have to draw a line somewhere. And since most HW info can be used for fingerprinting, I don't feel like sharing it with unknown websites. I've looked for it, but couldn't find a screenshot of the old internet explorer prompt, that, by default, used to ask you every time a website wanted to drop some cookie on your computer. Why did we move away from it? Are we going back there? What is different now?

burtonator 6y ago
> 1. Sharing them with Google, trough GA I have a blog post I'm thinking about writing about this due to launching my last app. It's basically impossible to make everyone happy so much so that it's a bit of an absurdism. There are people that don't want to be tracked, then there are people that don't want to be tracked by a specific company because they are doing a boycott.
- MayeulC 6y ago
  Oh, right, hence the customization options. Defaulting to no tracking is likely a sane choice. Let me insist that I am okay with statistics, but against tracking. GA is tracking. I do opt-in into statistics in software like Mozilla Firefox, etc. I just don't want to be tracked. I'm fine with giving away some information about myself so that websites know my 1680x1050 resolution is still being used, or that someone still uses Firefox, or on which page I landed, if I visited a few more pages. But nobody needs to know exactly what websites I visited today, where I ate, when I woke up, etc. It's my business and only mine. Would you be interested in such data about me? If not, why would you help Google achieve that very goal? Other trackers (twitter, facebook, most other social networks, analytics companies and advertiser networks) are just the same to me. But maybe some people boycott Google specifically.

burtonator 6y ago

> 1. Sharing them with Google, trough GA I have a blog post I'm thinking about writing about this due to launching my last app. It's basically impossible to make everyone happy so much so that it's a bit of an absurdism. There are people that don't want to be tracked, then there are people that don't want to be tracked by a specific company because they are doing a boycott.

MayeulC 6y ago
Oh, right, hence the customization options. Defaulting to no tracking is likely a sane choice. Let me insist that I am okay with statistics, but against tracking. GA is tracking. I do opt-in into statistics in software like Mozilla Firefox, etc. I just don't want to be tracked. I'm fine with giving away some information about myself so that websites know my 1680x1050 resolution is still being used, or that someone still uses Firefox, or on which page I landed, if I visited a few more pages. But nobody needs to know exactly what websites I visited today, where I ate, when I woke up, etc. It's my business and only mine. Would you be interested in such data about me? If not, why would you help Google achieve that very goal? Other trackers (twitter, facebook, most other social networks, analytics companies and advertiser networks) are just the same to me. But maybe some people boycott Google specifically.