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"They create needless URL bloat" - You just said you don't like short URL's. You can't have it both ways. "erode user privacy" - The data gathered is aggregate
by mmaunder 15y ago
"They create needless URL bloat" - You just said you don't like short URL's. You can't have it both ways.
"erode user privacy" - The data gathered is aggregated and doesn't identify individuals.
"make it more difficult to identify duplicate content" - You're already stripping them because you don't like them, so just ignore them when de-duping. Again, you can't have it both ways.
"and benefit ad publishers at the expense of everyone else." - You're out to screw the guys who pay for all those wonderful free services you use, like GMail for example:
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- tptacek 15y agoThe data gathered absolutely does pose a threat to user privacy.
- staunch 15y agoHow? All those vars are tracking is campaign/traffic source, etc.
- jrockway 15y agoThe more information you have along with an HTTP request, the easier it is to identify the person that made that HTTP request. User-agent / IP / list of fonts that Flash can use pretty much identifies individuals uniquely. Adding "I got to this page by clicking a link on site X" to the URL adds one more piece of data that makes it even easier for the site to guess that you are you.
- staunch 15y agoWhy would a site need to rely on utm_* query params to identify you when they probably already have your IP/user agent/cookie session? Can you think of a practical way in which this would actually make a difference?
- mmaunder 15y agoCare to elaborate beyond pounding the table?
- spooneybarger 15y agoHow do you know he isn't paying for google apps for domains? My MX listings look awfully similar to that and it isn't a free service for me.
- idlewords 15y agoIt's even better than that - I'm both paying for it AND not using it (you can see how the first two MX records point to my own servers). I'd feel like a double winner if the grandparent's original argument had made any sense.