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>Analytics does not need tracking. I want to know if people who consumed X bit of the website also consumed Y. If those are correlated, it's a good idea to giv
by Dudeman112 4y ago
>Analytics does not need tracking.
I want to know if people who consumed X bit of the website also consumed Y. If those are correlated, it's a good idea to give Y-like content to people who like X-like content. If they aren't correlated, it's a huge waste of everyone's time and money.
How do you do that without tracking?
- musicale 4y agoHow about we don't try to "feed" people more garbage and just make a web site that is well-organized so that people can choose for themselves?
- Dudeman112 4y agoYou're taking this as if every business is a huge faceless corporation. If my employer pushed out garbage there's gonna be a real hit to our reputation (we work in a deeply technical sector - the backlash would really hurt the long term profitability). The website itself is well organized. There's good reason to believe that people who want some X info will also be interested into Y info (due to legislation or standards set by the industry or simply because there are domain specific trends). There really is a mutual interest in knowing these correlations. That way some segments won't be pushed useless stuff that they aren't likely to be interested in. They said we wouldn't need tracking. How would we get those info without tracking? No, we are not selling that data to anyone and it could be anonymous for all we care (IMO this is more an issue with the http protocol than anything else, but good luck changing that)