Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap? • Hacker News Board

Re: Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?

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Post by yashap » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

_fat_santa wrote: post #4

I'm no ads expert but my guess would be they run ads on TikTok and have the pixel on UberEats to figure out the conversion rate on those ads.

It’s definitely this - details here: https://www.tiktokforbusinesseurope.com/resources/install-ti...

Re: Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?

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Post by uhtred » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

Using a browser add on like Privacy Badger should block that.

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Post by dvt » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

As someone that has spent a sizable amount of my career in ad products, the outrage here is kind of (sadly) funny. A conversion pixel? Hah, if you only had an idea of what the Facebook data faucet looked like in 2007-2017, your hairs would stand.

Pretty sure they were breaking all kinds of PII laws.

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Post by tonymet » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

it allows uber eats to build custom audiences and track conversion rates . welcome to ad tech ca 1998

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Post by boring_twenties » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:49 PM UTC

I don't get this. Nothing about tiktok in the Network debugger, nor in uBlock or NoScript for that matter.

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Post by rosndo » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:49 PM UTC

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Post by tester756 » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:51 PM UTC

bing and yahoo.co.jp are interesting

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Post by cmoog » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:52 PM UTC

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Post by rosndo » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:53 PM UTC

cmoog wrote: post #18

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Post by _8j50 » Sun, Mar 06, 2022, 6:53 PM UTC

sha256sum wrote: post #3

Protip: if user privacy is a concern to you, then not supporting these companies (by handing them your data) is a good place to start.

No. This needs to be criminalized. Not liking a good or service is one thing. Having things done to you or your information without consent for the purpose of spying on you is stalking with extra steps. Many of these companies still deprive you of your privacy even without using their services by developing shadow profiles on you.