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Remember the time when every serious homepage had a visitor counter? I don't recall any issues with privacy laws in those days. I think "tracking" back then was
by BasDirks 6y ago
Remember the time when every serious homepage had a visitor counter? I don't recall any issues with privacy laws in those days. I think "tracking" back then was decentralized?
- t0astbread 6y agoI don't know how these things worked but I guess either - the laws and public awareness just weren't there yet and it would be illegal without consent now or - it was something simple without cookies, like an image that automatically incremented a counter when requested
- XCSme 6y agoI keep saying this: centralization is the core issue of privacy. If every website would keep their own visitors data to themselves, no one would care and businesses would thrive. This is why I think the future is self-hosted, where every site is a complete platform that locally contains all the services it needs (eg. analytics, chat, etc.).
- detaro 6y agoMany of those also were incredibly simple, just counting requests, or at max setting a non-unique cookie to indicate "counted already", which has little privacy implications. And of course yes, privacy legislation and people's awareness of these things has evolved over time.