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While you're complaining about Google, how about you fix your website to stop giving away your viewers' data to third-party advertising/technology companies? A
by nfoz 13y ago
While you're complaining about Google, how about you fix your website to stop giving away your viewers' data to third-party advertising/technology companies? A cursory glance at the source reveals:
- tumblr.com
- googleapis.com
- netdna.bootstrapcdn.com
- ogp.me
- google-analytics.com
- yimg.com
- nol.yahoo.com
Think you could tone that down?
- xauronx 13y agoJeeze, you think he can just do all that typing for free? He has to pay the bills somehow. Unlike those greedy corporations! </sarcasm>
- chadwickthebold 13y agoHow does using CDNs to load jQuery, font awesome, and some google fonts give away viewer data to third parties? I'm not sure about the tumblr stuff but I don't see how loading these scripts is malicious...
- minimalist 13y agoIt is no different than linking to any third-party / external resource. Specifically, profiling information is delivered across the referrer and user-agent to name a few. There is a more complete discussion on the network security stackexchange group[0]. [0] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/38415/privacy-risk-in-using-google-apis http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/38415/privacy-ri...
- gbl08ma 13y agoThe tumblr stuff is because the website is hosted on tumblr (as can be seen by the feed at the bottom of the post).