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I've been watching this whole "tracking" thing, along with now this latest twist. I avoided writing this reaction the other day, but now: If you have to hound
by pasbesoin 14y ago
I've been watching this whole "tracking" thing, along with now this latest twist. I avoided writing this reaction the other day, but now:
If you have to hound me to sell me your product, you've already failed.
I realize this doesn't reflect the reality of the world, and perhaps myself -- were I to reflect in a fully informed fashion upon myself. But it is my considered, "rational" reaction and approach to the situation.
Make a quality product that is useful to me, and I'll seek you out. Otherwise, fuck off. You and your business model can crawl off into a dark corner and die, please.
Oh, is that a bit harsh? You deserve no better, you "business" (ueber alles) absolutists.
- spullara 14y agoThis really makes no sense. How will you seek out a product or solution that you don't know exists?
- pasbesoin 14y agoSome degree of analytics to determine how users are interacting with your online property, I understand. And, I understand that many want to source those analytics to a third party (e.g. Google Analytics). However, the third party tracking that enables advertisers to notice a view or interest and then "haunt" users across multiple sites for days with ads related to that view? That aggregate and warehouse such knowledge, building up extensive profiles that become their own form of property and that may be used and sold against the target user's own best interest? (So, you're looking at information related to diabetes? I bet health insurers would be interested in that...) I have very little sympathy for those use cases.