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github.com is itself a social network and a tracker. They should know a lot more about the status and activities of the software projects hosted there and the u
by gmueckl 6y ago
github.com is itself a social network and a tracker. They should know a lot more about the status and activities of the software projects hosted there and the users than the users themselves do. Enabling third parties to track users across their site would be the equivalent of opening the lid of this treasure chest.
- lucideer 6y agoOh no, I do understand that. It's just the excluding custom domains part I don't get. Why not keep Google out of all their data: why give them a portion?
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoI've never thought of GitHub like that, but it makes so much sense. With all of the features (like the commit heat-map), GitHub is at this point 2 parts social network, and 2 parts social network for software.