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>companies that use cross-site tracking for things like website optimization OK, I was hoping someone already addressed this, but apparently not. What "website
by dhosek 5y ago
>companies that use cross-site tracking for things like website optimization
OK, I was hoping someone already addressed this, but apparently not. What "website optimization" requires cross-site tracking? Is there any real application for cross-site tracking besides advertising? I honestly would like to know.
- xdennis 5y agoCDNs maybe? Back when people used jQuery, an enormous amount of traffic went to Google, ripe for tracking, and you got the small benefit of not having to download the same version of jQuery so often.
- sdflhasjd 5y agoIt's referring to things like analytics, hotjar etc. Optimisation as in conversion optimisation. Imo, a lot of this stuff ends up being just as bad.
- nr2x 5y agoConsidering many of those read first party auth tokens they are particularly bad.
- haecceity 5y agoOptimize you buying things.
- miki123211 5y agoYes, when one website relies on the fact that you're logged in somewhere else. Thing easily being able to add embedded Youtube videos to your watchlist, adding favorite articles to Pocket, being able to pay with 1 click using a payment method saved somewhere else, and so on.
- dhosek 5y agoI'm thinking that there are better ways to do this than relying on potentially fragile or hackable cross-site cookies. Certainly for payment, I'd prefer that communication to be handled server-side.