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>No embedded code, no tracking, no individual targeting How do you know we aren't being tracked? Like... what is preventing them from looking at their Load Bal
by geoduck14 5y ago
>No embedded code, no tracking, no individual targeting
How do you know we aren't being tracked? Like... what is preventing them from looking at their Load Balancer and seeing which posts Mountain_Skies looked at? We know for a fact that HN know which posts we vote up and down - how do we know they don't do anything with this information?
- muzani 5y agoIt's about the incentives. I don't trust Facebook or Google because deep in their DNA, they're advertising companies. They're not advertisers like Ogilvy; they're advertisers because they're really good at profiling people. So when they acquire companies like Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube with free products, I expect those products to add tracking and targeting even when they were strongly against it (esp. WhatsApp). YC however is the opposite. Their DNA is Paul Graham's essays. They put themselves up as the people who help the small guy. They need your trust. They use your HN history to evaluate your YC application and they're open about that. It's even on the undocumented features wiki that YC founders can see each other. Show HN is probably used for scouting startups. They need VC style data, which shows whether the founders are smart, resilient, and whether the startups they make have potential. So yeah, they probably do track you, but not in the creepy stalker way Google does.