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Comment by SahAssar | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure a company that says "Imagine being able to capture, analyze, and re-target any person on any ad platform that clicks on any of your links on any marketing channel" is one that should be trusted with anyones privacy.

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Shareaholic offers many different types of marketing tools. The product that you're referring to is the URL shortener, which is independent of the Share Count Proxy product -- https://www.shareaholic.com/link-manager/retargeting

This URL Shortener service is also GDPR compatible as retargeting pixels are not set for EU subjects regardless of what customers want to set. In the roadmap is to add an opt-in message on the redirect.

I get that you offer different types of tools, but my point is that trusting one company that markets tracking to anonymize the tracking of another company that markets tracking seems backwards regardless of if you say that this specific product actually does tracking or not.

Coming in cold, that's a very fair concern/comment. I generally believe that products can be privacy-first but still serve the needs of marketers while providing consumer choice. Consumer choice is the key in my opinion. Shareaholic tools do what the customer sets them to do, with opinionated safeguards to prevent customers from missteps with regards to GDPR and consumer choice. For example, Shareaholic is one of the very few that also respects DNT signals (even though DNT is now defunct).

Btw, Share Count Proxy is also whitelisted by Firefox which provides the added advantage of share counts actually showing on Firefox if you use the proxy while direct calls to Facebook.com, Pinterest, etc are blocked.

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