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Exactly. Analytics isn’t even intrinsically bad. There are so many privacy-friendly analytics tools today (Fathom, Plausible, etc), and lots of them can even be
by maronato 3y ago
Exactly. Analytics isn’t even intrinsically bad. There are so many privacy-friendly analytics tools today (Fathom, Plausible, etc), and lots of them can even be self hosted.
Saying you don’t collect data, then using Google for data collection is very disingenuous.
Is “privacy” the new buzzword? Seems like with “AI” before it, privacy is being thrown around by startups as a way to pad landing pages and attract naive users.
- hulitu 3y ago> Is “privacy” the new buzzword? It is not new. It is going on since some years. A lot of companies (hello Microsoft) say that they care about your privacy, while collecting every piece of it.
- chunkyguy 3y agoPiracy isn't a new buzzword but ever since Apple made it a selling point everyone is hopping on the train. Also when it comes to privacy there's a thin line between collecting data and selling it to partners.
- XCSme 3y agoThe privacy laws are new(ish), which is what makes companies even consider the privacy side of things nowadays.