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I dunno, you don’t need to be particularly concerned with security to understand that you do not need a facebook tracking pixel on your ‘paying customer’ UI.

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Facebook will be pitching to your Marketing folks that's exactly where you need it.

Facebook want data on what actions users took before signing up, which users actually signed up and started paying, and how that relates to revenue. This UI is exactly where they can determine these types of actions.

Whether this actually makes Facebook better at marketing or not is a good question.

That's why it's a killer mistake to let "marketing folk" dictate _anything_ that has to do with the app. They can suggest, but not dictate. If this points to anything it'd the dysfunctional development process at Backblaze.

>That's why it's a killer mistake to let "marketing folk" dictate _anything_ that has to do with the app.

Killer mistake of your revenue, or killer mistake of what we'd prefer apps to be?

In this case it's certainly going to cost them some revenue, not to mention the EU might slap them with a nice GDPR fine for leaking PII.

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