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66 trackers blocked in Brave on this website. Can someone explain what all these trackers are needed for versus on websites with less? Facebook or Discord or Tw
by Cider9986 5mo ago
66 trackers blocked in Brave on this website. Can someone explain what all these trackers are needed for versus on websites with less? Facebook or Discord or Twitter only have 1 or 0 blocked and I'm sure they are tracking my just as much.
- valleyer 5mo agoThey're needed for extra revenue for KGO-TV. (Which is owned by Disney.)
- Cider9986 5mo agoThat doesn't address my question but I appreciate your reply.
- valleyer 5mo agoSorry, maybe I should have been more explicit. Facebook, Discord, and Twitter may sell "your data", but when they do, it's likely by selling distillations of their internal databases. (Or, of course, through vulnerabilities like the one the Cambridge Analytica Facebook app used.) Small-ball Web sites like KGO, on the other hand, just get proposals from data aggregators to plop a snippet of HTML/JS on their site, and they get money for it. There's no control on the number of quality of them. Big sites can't do that because they'd risk introducing serious vulnerabilities that would compromise accounts. No one has a KGO "account" to compromise. And the amount of revenue they'd provide is likely peanuts to someone like Facebook. So: they're for revenue.
- Cider9986 5mo agoThank you very much.