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I'd say the people behind the new Gov.uk website are single handedly killing the notion that government can't do things as well as the private sector. They're
by tomelders 14y ago
I'd say the people behind the new Gov.uk website are single handedly killing the notion that government can't do things as well as the private sector.
They're doing "web" right, whereas most private sector UK firms (including design/development agencies) are doing "web" wrong. Very wrong.
- anon1385 14y agoSure if 'doing "web" right' means sending my personal information to private companies based in a foreign countries when I visit government web pages [1]. This may be the Silicon Valley/libertarian idea of the web done right, but it isn't mine. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5127921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5127921
- jiggy2011 14y agoWhat would be the alternative? They probably need some form of analytics in order to iterate and make the site better. The alternative would be to spend time and money developing their own. Besides most of the information in analytics is simply which pages you viewed and when, it's not like they are sending all of your tax data to google.