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I didn't get much out of that, but the very last page says "This column is part of The Privacy Project, a series from The New York Times Opinion." which does seem much more useful and has a bunch more:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-pr...

And yes, The Privacy Project has a bunch of trackers on it.

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related: The Times's publisher wrote that we're examining our policies and practices around data, too.

> "As with a politician railing against high drug prices while accepting campaign donations from big pharma, a news organization cannot talk about privacy on the internet without skeptical readers immediately, and rightly, examining its own practices for signs of hypocrisy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-yo...

I read their privacy policy a while back and felt fairly grossed out by how contrary to their editorial stance and their actual practices were. Ended up subscribing to Ars because they turn the trackers off for subscribers.

I didn't get much either, but this is a link that I will be sharing with many of my less privacy concerned friends and family members; the ones who keep asking me why I refuse to get a doorbell camera or smart light-bulbs. I think this article makes privacy concerns accessible to people newly thinking about it.

Thank you for linking to that page.

As far as the trackers, is it really that surprising? Any news site advocating for privacy, while much of their business relies on tracking their users so they can keep them "engaged".

Almost as ironic as anytime Google says anything about Privacy

I don’t think it is surprising, but it is hypocritical. I think such hypocrisy is worth pointing out, even if it is routine at this point.

>> As far as the trackers, is it really that surprising?

Nope, not surprising. I'd bet the people that wrote the articles aren't the same people that put the trackers on the pages or sell the ads or do budgets and so on. It would've been nice of someone there to say "Hey maybe we shouldn't pile on the ad stuff in this area". Though, maybe someone tried and couldn't convince the boss.

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