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Exactly. Hacker News is the same way. HN does not send your HN handle information to any third party. That said, your posts and comments include certain metada
by Spooky23 3y ago
Exactly.
Hacker News is the same way. HN does not send your HN handle information to any third party. That said, your posts and comments include certain metadata, including your HN handle and a link to account metadata as per the privacy policy. This data is public and may be accessed by third parties.
- chaps 3y agoHow is this even remotely the same thing? For one, HN doesn't use pixels to communicate directly with tiktok, Facebook, etc. And what does publicly accessible data have to do with this?
- nerdponx 3y ago1. Search queries are not metadata. 2. Why is sharing metadata with unknown arbitrary 3rd parties OK? Not all metadata is or should be public.
- Spooky23 3y agoMy point, poorly made, is that the statements made by companies sharing this data don’t mean what they appear to at first reading. Even in the silly HN example, you can analyze referrer data and build profiles of people, without any cooperation on HNs part.