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Interesting to contrast this with their main competitor at Chess.com, which uses AdSense and tracks users with googletagmanager.com, sentry.io, kaxsdc.com, face
by LeifCarrotson 3y ago
Interesting to contrast this with their main competitor at Chess.com, which uses AdSense and tracks users with googletagmanager.com, sentry.io, kaxsdc.com, facebook-sdk, and other third-party data sources.
uBlock is cutting off lichess.org's Fastly CDN resources without loss of function, but is otherwise silent. Conversely, uBlock, Ghostery, and PrivacyBadger light up my browser like a Christmas tree when I visit Chess.com.
Yet another reason to prefer Lichess.
- ar_lan 3y agoI agree with this, but I think the impressive part about Lichess is that it's actually full of competitive users. Chess.com is, by all measures, the "default" chess application. But you still see active GMs and a huge playerbase surrounding Lichess, which enables them to actually have their very open structure + lack of annoying trackers as features worth peering into.
- timetraveller26 3y agoAnd many GM's prefer Lichess, like Hikaru in this clip casually roasting Chess.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvfOR9MFyc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvfOR9MFyc
- PUSH_AX 3y agoWhat's the issue with sentry?
- janalsncm 3y agoI’m pretty curious about chess.com’s finances. I wonder how much they’re making from premium accounts vs ads. Can’t seem to find much online since they’re private.
- thiht 3y agoSentry is not a tracker