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Interesting. Could you elaborate on the rationale behind disabling the Beacon API?
by srameshc 1y ago
Interesting. Could you elaborate on the rationale behind disabling the Beacon API?
- vinnymac 1y agoNot OP. It’s mostly used for tracking user behavior, and is rarely critical functionality for a given web page.
- snickerdoodle12 1y agoIt's solely created for advertisers to be able to implement their tracking more reliably. There is almost no way to use it in a way that benefits the user.
- Chabsff 1y agoYes, but you could also say that it was created so that advertisers stop doing complete nonsense like tracking pixels and other roundabout ways of accomplishing the same thing in ways that are sometimes (often?) detrimental to the user. Sure, it's a form of capitulation to advertisers, that doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't benefit the user. If advertisers are going to be doing that stuff no matter what, corralling them has advantages. If anything, it makes creating an extension like OP's a lot easier than playing whack-a-mole with a litany of random techniques.
- snickerdoodle12 1y agoSure, which is exactly the rationale for disabling it.