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Your reasoning makes complete sense to me from a UX perspective. However, how does a company get any sort of demographic information if they can't track the use
by eshvk 14y ago
Your reasoning makes complete sense to me from a UX perspective. However, how does a company get any sort of demographic information if they can't track the user reliably? Apart from all the evil reasons to do that, there must be some critical places where user data helps in making a product better.
- jasonkester 14y agoThink about the alternatives you're comparing: [Frictionless]: cookie + record in the database + random userid [ForcedAccountCreation]: cookie + record in the database + arbitrary username + meaningless passwordhash I can't think off hand of any advantage the things in that second list give you that you can't get from the things in the first one.
- eshvk 14y agoI will be the first one to admit that I don't know participate in the date aggregation point of the pipeline so my knowledge is rusty. Say one was designing a system where age, sex information was important. How do you keep track of this information: 1. Across multiple computers that the person might be using? 2. Expiring cookies? Thanks