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> "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 sinc
by 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.