GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
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Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
#2On one hand, it sounds like it's only on marketing pages, which I never visit anyways.
On the other hand, in December 2020, they said "We are also committing that going forward, we will only use cookies that are required for us to serve GitHub.com" and apparently in corporate terms, a "commitment" lasts less than two years now.
Presumably the main change here is Nat made this commitment and Nat has since left Microsoft, but it's hard to believe their marketing team thinks the data value from a couple marketing pages is worth the PR hit from this. Just a dumb--- business move, really.
Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
#3Another PR that will be closed to comments pretty soon because of the mobs.
Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
#4On one hand, it sounds like it's only on marketing pages, which I never visit anyways. On the other hand, in December 2020, they said "We are also committing that going forward, we will only use cookies that are required for us to serve GitHub.com" and apparently in corporate terms, a "commitment" lasts less than two years now. Presumably the main change here is Nat made this commitment and Nat has since left Microso…
The 2020 announcement for reference: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
This is very reminiscent of the “why whatsapp doesn’t sell ads” [1]. A good reminder that we should never trust any long term promises from companies.
[1] https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads/?lang=en
Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
#5On one hand, it sounds like it's only on marketing pages, which I never visit anyways. On the other hand, in December 2020, they said "We are also committing that going forward, we will only use cookies that are required for us to serve GitHub.com" and apparently in corporate terms, a "commitment" lasts less than two years now. Presumably the main change here is Nat made this commitment and Nat has since left Microso…
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Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
#6On one hand, it sounds like it's only on marketing pages, which I never visit anyways. On the other hand, in December 2020, they said "We are also committing that going forward, we will only use cookies that are required for us to serve GitHub.com" and apparently in corporate terms, a "commitment" lasts less than two years now. Presumably the main change here is Nat made this commitment and Nat has since left Microso…
The 2020 announcement for reference: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ This is very reminiscent of the “why whatsapp doesn’t sell ads” [1]. A good reminder that we should never trust any long term promises from companies. [1] https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads/?lang=en
And that's why you should never buy a software subscription with proprietary file formats.
Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
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Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
#8People seem outraged about the marketing cookies. Genuine question: Why?
Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
#9The user tracking makes sense, but ads are weird in this product. There's no way it makes sense to add ads to paying customers. That's strange.
Re: GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users
#10They changed the section about DNT, which makes it confusing. If GitHub can use DNT, then they should mention that (like it had before). If GitHub does not use DNT, then they should delete that section.
The same section mentions Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, which they could mention anyways if they want to do, but they should mention that GitHub is not affiliated with them (even though some of these projects might be hosted on GitHub).