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Good luck with that. The list of companies to avoid is pretty long.
All you need to do is unplug your modem and you're good to go.
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"I don't know why you are upset that I'm stabbing you when I've been poisoning your all these years ha ha ha".
Not really accurate analogy. More like “you’re only finding out today that I’ve been poisoning you the entire time?”
Uber Eats' own analytics
sc-static.net (Snapchat? whois doesn't reveal anything.)
Google Tag Manager
Facebook Connect
Yahoo
TikTok
ispot.tv (Some sort of ad management solution.)
Hotjar (Behavioural analytics.)
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at least hotjar respects do-not-track settings
DNT is not the solution though. DNT status is not readable by JS (by design), so DNT cannot be implemented in the client. So all tracking calls are still made over the network. It is then up to the server processing those calls to drop them if the DNT header is present. Thus, there is no way for a user to verify that DNT is actually honored. Hotjar is probably the only one (claiming to be) honoring DNT consistently.…
This is not a defense of DNT by the way - it has other problems such as the increased fingerprinting surface, etc.
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.
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> If they are criminal why would you use them? People don’t give money to scammers because they know their scammers. It’s the same with privacy issues, people who don’t know what’s happening can’t make informed choices.
>people who don’t know what’s happening can’t make informed choices. it's really distasteful how privacy advocates always assume that everybody who doesn't feel the same way they do is uninformed. the average person has a basic understanding that companies keep track of them online. everybody who's spent more than five minutes online without an adblocker understands retargeting. it's not that people don't understand,…
"Facebook listening to people" wouldn't be noteworthy if people weren't creeped out by it.
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> If they are criminal why would you use them? People don’t give money to scammers because they know their scammers. It’s the same with privacy issues, people who don’t know what’s happening can’t make informed choices.
>people who don’t know what’s happening can’t make informed choices. it's really distasteful how privacy advocates always assume that everybody who doesn't feel the same way they do is uninformed. the average person has a basic understanding that companies keep track of them online. everybody who's spent more than five minutes online without an adblocker understands retargeting. it's not that people don't understand,…
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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.
The purpose isn't to spy on you. It's to track the performance of an ad shown to you on tiktok.
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at least hotjar respects do-not-track settings
DNT is not the solution though. DNT status is not readable by JS (by design), so DNT cannot be implemented in the client. So all tracking calls are still made over the network. It is then up to the server processing those calls to drop them if the DNT header is present. Thus, there is no way for a user to verify that DNT is actually honored. Hotjar is probably the only one (claiming to be) honoring DNT consistently.…
But the JS is served by a server, which can read the DNT header, so why can't it just write different JS based on the content of the header? It can be as simple as writing "let do_not_track = true;" if the header is present.
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> This needs to be criminalized Literally criminalised? As in you’ll throw people in jail for putting up a pixel? Made illegal, sure.
Wouldn't be a bad idea to be honest If they're acting so antagonistically against GDPR maybe , for some of the most egregious cases, throwing some people in jail will do the trick I mean, whoever does the whole song and dance for rejecting cookies that shows a loading gif and takes a while does deserve it And if you think I'm exaggerating, guess who has the best info now on the Ukraine war? Tiktok.
This is how you get a legal code like America's, where a cop and prosecutor can put almost anyone in jail with the flimsiest excuse.
I understand the impulse. But the solution to bad enforcement isn't ratcheting up penalties. It's increasing enforcement.