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You really think that basic web analytics is "spying on you"? So a company that records how many people purchase a given product is "spying" on them? Business o
by tensor 4y ago
You really think that basic web analytics is "spying on you"? So a company that records how many people purchase a given product is "spying" on them? Business owners are not allowed to do basic accounting to gauge product performance? Because that's all 99% of people use these analytics for.
No one cares about you enough to "spy" on you.
- cycomanic 4y agoWhat is "basic accounting to gauge product performance"?
- jodrellblank 4y ago> "No one cares about you enough to "spy" on you." Would you mind telling them that? Maybe they'll stop sending me personalised spam offering me discounts since I haven't shopped there in a while, or paying to send me phyisical advertisements through the post. From your tone, that must be giving me an inflated sense of my own importance. > "You really think that basic web analytics is "spying on you"" No, I think web analytics is spying on me. A HTTP log is one thing, a JavaScript library which probes my browser, tracks available APIs and versions and mouse movements and sets EverCookies and behaves insidiously, is spying. If I visit example.com and example.com know I went there, that's understandable. If there's a deliberately invisible Facebook pixel telling Facebook I went to example.com, which is only vaguely disclosed in some "and our trusted 3rd parties" legalese, that's not fine.
- Nextgrid 4y agoIf this uses a third-party company whose business model is stalking everyone for targeted ads then it's absolutely spying.