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You have no idea what site is it. Perhaps it's an interactive game or a questionnaire. POSTing that data to a server is much worse than running some clientside code. Your post is not productive at all.
> You’re right, JavaScript wouldn’t be necessary for my website. I agree that getting rid of it would increase accessibility.
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People just don't understand how valuable data is. For example, Sweden has a Facebook Market competitor that uses Facebook _and_ Google for analytics. Now we know for a fact that Amazon has in past used AWS to spy on b&m and e-commerce competitors, i dont belive for a minute that Meta would be any better.
Got a link for the Amazon/AWS spying?
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People just don't understand how valuable data is. For example, Sweden has a Facebook Market competitor that uses Facebook _and_ Google for analytics. Now we know for a fact that Amazon has in past used AWS to spy on b&m and e-commerce competitors, i dont belive for a minute that Meta would be any better.
Got a link for the Amazon/AWS spying?
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Got a link for the Amazon/AWS spying?
Not OP but I did some searching and found an article citing this comment chain with throwaway accounts claiming to be former AWS employees doing it. I didn't bother reading all of the comments but I would assume it to be major news if it was actually true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929959
(good digging though!)
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Got a link for the Amazon/AWS spying?
3 hours have passed. I also did a healthly amount of googling various permutations of what they said and didn't find anything relevant so until anything new is revealed I guess we should consider this fiction.
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3 hours have passed. I also did a healthly amount of googling various permutations of what they said and didn't find anything relevant so until anything new is revealed I guess we should consider this fiction.
For what it's worth, I remember coming across this claim a couple years ago about AWS on HN. I don't think it's fiction, it's possible that their PR has scrubbed these allegations from the internet.
The only way to stop this from happening in the long term is to educate users that companies are spying on them, and tell them about the tools to prevent it. Depending on site owners and spyware companies, like Facebook, to solve the problem is super naive, and will never solve it. They directly benefit from these "leaks," and so they have no motivation to prevent them.
Rubbish. Legislation is used to protect vulnerable groups and health data. Strong reasonable legislation is hard to write, and expensive to enforce, but effective enforcement will cause changes to internet sites. Think GDPR. It is hard to manage cross-jurisdictional issues on the internet. In this case, Sweden could probably design good restrictions since it is a site local to Sweden? Trying to get everyone to become…
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Is it realistic or sensible to expect every internet user to become a security maven?
Is it realistic or sensible to expect every driver to know how to use their seatbelts?
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Is it realistic or sensible to expect every driver to know how to use their seatbelts?
What a ridiculous comparison. You can teach a small child how to operate a seatbelt.
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What a ridiculous comparison. You can teach a small child how to operate a seatbelt.
Sure, but can we teach grown men not to wring their hands about safety mechanisms for $SCARY_NEW_TECH at the same time they're becoming inevitable and culturally familiar?