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And yet here we are with the site (fastcompany) itself loading something like 10-14 trackers/ external scripts
by ashneo76 5y ago
And yet here we are with the site (fastcompany) itself loading something like 10-14 trackers/ external scripts
- bdcravens 5y agoWhile HN doesn't have tracking, YC has plenty of alums who are part of that industry (like Segment and Mixpanel)
- eli 5y agoSegment and Mixpanel help companies track their own visitors on their own sites. Feels unfair to lump them in with data brokers.
- bdcravens 5y agoI was referring to the comment about FastCompany's trackers. That said, where do you think data brokers get their data? Private companies sell info on their customers all the time.
- jeffbee 5y agoSee, that’s the problem with cheap, disposable takes that preclude critical thinking. You’ve conflated “tracking” online with the actual privacy-invasive industry the article is talking about. These guys are selling your real private data: your credit card transactions, your phone’s location data, your real name and address, your life events. This industry is very happy that nerds confuse them and Google.
- bertil 5y agoI know this might seem like a niche argument, but I feel like asking my browser to store information is something that I can prevent. It’s annoying, and there’s less financial incentive to build detailed tools to help — but compared to taking information from my bank, without my consent; from electoral lists, without my consent; to infer my political opinion from photos of my car on the curb. I understand that people who don’t know how a browser works see it the other way around: they understand electoral lists (although I’m not sure they can change their details); they might not know how to “delete cookies”.