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Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Say it, when you do. Say: We take your Privacy and Security seriously that is why we won’t ever store a tracking cookie on your machine. If you still want to support us by different means, click here

Anybody who takes your privacy seriously won’t even have to ask for consent, because there is nothing to ask for

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Say it, when you do. Say: We take your Privacy and Security seriously that is why we won’t ever store a tracking cookie on your machine. If you still want to support us by different means, click here Anybody who takes your privacy seriously won’t even have to ask for consent, because there is nothing to ask for

Tracking cookies provide incommensurable value to site owners for improving the quality of their web properties, which ultimately benefits users.

Example abound: finding out where people are the most frustrated (high exit rates), what content drives the most interest (page views), what content is missing or inaccurate (high bounce rate and low visit duration for visitors coming from Google), how they are using the site (browsing patterns from page to page), etc. etc.

Preventing all forms of tracking will definitely result in lower quality websites across the board, so like with all things there has to be a middle-ground found.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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Also stop saying "Before you go further..." we need to share your data with tens of corporations. /s

Note to non-EU users: Techcrunch is completely blocking the page with a popup asking me to share my location and behavioral data (for advertising purposes) with a probably very long list of companies (something called "Oath" family).

The logos shown are for Yahoo, Aol, Autoblog, Huffpost and Engadget.

Nah. I'll skip as always :D

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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post #2

Say it, when you do. Say: We take your Privacy and Security seriously that is why we won’t ever store a tracking cookie on your machine. If you still want to support us by different means, click here Anybody who takes your privacy seriously won’t even have to ask for consent, because there is nothing to ask for

Tracking cookies provide incommensurable value to site owners for improving the quality of their web properties, which ultimately benefits users. Example abound: finding out where people are the most frustrated (high exit rates), what content drives the most interest (page views), what content is missing or inaccurate (high bounce rate and low visit duration for visitors coming from Google), how they are using the si…

As long as the cookie does not track the visitor across different sites?

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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We take your privacy seriously is the kind of language you'd expect from a company that doesn't want to make specific commitments. That company isn't putting any skin in the game with that claim; every company claims that.

Therefore I am not surprised and won't be holding my breath.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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post #2

Say it, when you do. Say: We take your Privacy and Security seriously that is why we won’t ever store a tracking cookie on your machine. If you still want to support us by different means, click here Anybody who takes your privacy seriously won’t even have to ask for consent, because there is nothing to ask for

Tracking cookies provide incommensurable value to site owners for improving the quality of their web properties, which ultimately benefits users. Example abound: finding out where people are the most frustrated (high exit rates), what content drives the most interest (page views), what content is missing or inaccurate (high bounce rate and low visit duration for visitors coming from Google), how they are using the si…

Wait, exit points, page views, bounces… Can't you measure these just from the server's log? I don't think you need to track an individual's navigation pattern and store a cookie on their machine to crunch these stats.

Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

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post #2

Say it, when you do. Say: We take your Privacy and Security seriously that is why we won’t ever store a tracking cookie on your machine. If you still want to support us by different means, click here Anybody who takes your privacy seriously won’t even have to ask for consent, because there is nothing to ask for

Tracking cookies provide incommensurable value to site owners for improving the quality of their web properties, which ultimately benefits users. Example abound: finding out where people are the most frustrated (high exit rates), what content drives the most interest (page views), what content is missing or inaccurate (high bounce rate and low visit duration for visitors coming from Google), how they are using the si…

Not all of us want to engage with every web page/app.

In fact I don't want to engage with most of them.

If google search takes me to the site and I find info that I need in 5 seconds, tats a good thing not a bad one.

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