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There are plenty of scenarios where tracking is useful though. For example a product team may want to know how a particular segment of customers use their produ
by iamacyborg 4y ago
There are plenty of scenarios where tracking is useful though. For example a product team may want to know how a particular segment of customers use their product vs a different segment.
- danaris 4y agoAnd (please excuse me if I'm just being dumb this early in the morning) how does tracking their web browsing help with that...?
- iamacyborg 4y agoYou'd use something like Pendo, Mixpanel, Heap or whatever as a client-side tracking library for a web application.
- danaris 4y ago...If it's your own web application, then why can't you do server-side tracking? And if it's not your own web application, why should you be allowed to track it?
- iamacyborg 4y agoBecause you want to track individuals, and to do that, you need consent, probably acquired by a popup of some sort.
- danaris 4y agoUnless I am misunderstanding things rather deeply, I do not believe you need consent to track individuals' activity in your own app, with server-side logging. You need consent to set cookies that are not relevant to the (user-side) functioning of your app/website—and since that's the only way for you to track users outside your own site (an oversimplification, but close enough), naturally you need it to track them beyond there.
- iamacyborg 4y ago> Unless I am misunderstanding things rather deeply, I do not believe you need consent to track individuals' activity in your own app, with server-side logging. You would require consent for this as far as I understand.
- musicale 4y agoJust because it's useful to someone else doesn't mean that I want it.
- iamacyborg 4y agoWhich is fine, you’re asked to consent and if you don’t you won’t be tracked.