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I for one much prefer paywalls. I'd rather be the customer than the product.
Most news websites load trackers regardless on paying so you can be both the customer and the product. This is also why I will never subscribe to a news website. I'd rather let them try their luck with tracking rather than just hand them in all my personal & payment info on a platter.
Kinda surprised how many interactions I've had tracked from my visits to Home Depot, I've only recently started stopping by there in the past year or so. What data could they have possibly even used? Sell me more cardboard moving boxes? Plant supplies?
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/cardboar...
https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-repo...
Apparently my website is complicit in this... I'm disgusted with and ashamed of myself. https://i.imgur.com/Wz7O8HU.png Edit: typo complacenet to complicit, thanks Zarel.
You mean you didn't know this would happen by adding something (script, tracker, pixel, etc.) to your site, or you don't have a root cause as to why your own site is sending data to FB?
I was probably trying to do some research on visitor demographics, which presumably failed.
But in the end I still would have deleted it. Facebook clearly can't be trusted with my data. Idc what connections it gives me. They have shown time and time again that they will exploit the tiniest things to predict and manipulate your behavior.
And apparently companies desperate for even slight up ticks in conversion rates will upload everything they know about you.
No wonder Cambridge Analytica, AggregateIQ, and Robert Mercer had such an easy time compiling psychological profiles and categories of Americans and Brits.
In the end, it's real simple. The human brain adjusts based on the environment and events around it. Id rather not have Zuckerberg, Dorsey, or anyone else they deem worthy, intentionally or otherwise playing around in my head.
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As an advertiser, I can tell you that clickbait is the worst place for my ad to live because people click away immediately.
Yeah I agree advertisers would rather have their ads next to quality content. Publishers don't always have the same incentives while it's easy to fill lots of inventory with at lower prices but make up for it in volume. A fine dining restaurant might make more money per diner than a McDonald's, but your average McDonald's probably makes way more money.
I don't have a problem with bad content out there, so long as there's a ton of really good content. For the great publications I read, I want them to be successful businesses so they can expand. A better ad market, or even a return to how it was before the dominance of FB/Google, would enable them to do that in a way that relying mostly on subscriptions hasn't.
I deleted my Facebook a couple months ago. Now I wish I would have kept it just a little longer to see what they had on me. But in the end I still would have deleted it. Facebook clearly can't be trusted with my data. Idc what connections it gives me. They have shown time and time again that they will exploit the tiniest things to predict and manipulate your behavior. And apparently companies desperate for even sligh…
Try logging in. You might have to reset your password, but the bastard's haven't really deleted it.
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Most news websites load trackers regardless on paying so you can be both the customer and the product. This is also why I will never subscribe to a news website. I'd rather let them try their luck with tracking rather than just hand them in all my personal & payment info on a platter.
You mean like the Google Analytics you have running on your website?
Edit: I have now deleted the DNS records so the website will be down until I have time to fix this properly.
Kinda surprised how many interactions I've had tracked from my visits to Home Depot, I've only recently started stopping by there in the past year or so. What data could they have possibly even used? Sell me more cardboard moving boxes? Plant supplies?
If you went there to buy moving boxes, they might show you ads for paint or other things someone who just moved might want.
It says I completed a registration for a company I never signed up to.
I did visit that company's restaurant that day, but I did not purchase anything.
Are some companies auto-registering you?