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>I don’t really have a problem with this - as long as it’s not tracking people It is. Everything you do is being logged and categorized, and your automatically
by ramesh31 5y ago
>I don’t really have a problem with this - as long as it’s not tracking people
It is. Everything you do is being logged and categorized, and your automatically assigned device fingerprinted user UID (whether you've made an account or not), is associated to all of your actions. Those associations are then dumped into a data lake for data scientists to mine for marketing purposes, and to cross-reference your activities across other sites.
- feoren 5y agoMuch of what you describe is immoral and/or illegal in the EU. It's certainly not the case that every site is breaking the law this way. You can get 90% of the benefit of analytics with anonymized data.