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As does StackOverflow
by david_allison 4y ago
As does StackOverflow
- Nextgrid 4y agoYou could argue that SO at least gives you some benefit - there are badges you can earn for popular shared links.
- thih9 4y agoFB also claims their tracking is beneficial, they can show you more relevant ads this way. Perhaps there are benefits to everything; is the cost, i.e. losing privacy, worth it?
- Nextgrid 4y agoTrue but the same can be achieved with just asking the person about their needs/interests or using only public data for ad targeting. Second, this only applies to Facebook users, and yet they also track non-users despite them not even going to be showed any advertising.
- remram 4y agoIt's not encoded though, your user ID is right there and you can strip it out. I agree that it could be clearer like /question/1234?utm_user=5678 instead of /question/1234/5678
- OJFord 4y agoAmazon does similar, along with a generally crap description of the product that isn't necessary, you only need the 'dp...' ID.
- tedmiston 4y agoThe end user viewer can also strip the sharing user ID easily if desired: https://stackoverflow.com/q/10982911/149428 https://stackoverflow.com/q/10982911/149428 → https://stackoverflow.com/q/10982911 https://stackoverflow.com/q/10982911 → https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10982911/creating-temporary-files-in-bash https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10982911/creating-tempor...