Edit: to those downvoting, yea, it’s agreed that tracking is bad but the tone of the article completely ignores that a lot of the web’s content depends on this model so if it “just didn’t track” a large swath would no longer exist.
But I agree, taking advantage of me telling you personal info by selling it to externals is unfair without consent
That’t not "doing sketchy shit with people's data"
I can’t believe how many people have bought into this EU regulation hook line and sinker. It’s ridiculous, imagine the man hours that have been wasted in the last 7 years just clicking cookie bars. And as OP says, it’s completely unrealistic to not have them.
For instance the website selling ads has every reason to inflate view and click count numbers, the ad buyer has reasons to diminish those numbers. In fact if you measure an honest pipeline it is going to look that way because some people drop out at each stage.
One reason you have 87 trackers on a typical web site is that many sites and advertisers figure if they have a large number of trackers they can’t all be wrong.
Site X could show ads to users just fine without third-party cookies but then advertisers would not be so sure about the stats.
> Site X could show ads to users just fine without third-party cookies but then advertisers would not be so sure about the stats.
Feels like 99% of people would prefer this. Maybe advertising becomes less effective, but it may actually become more effective if it leads to more ads being visible since they are no longer ad-blocked.
So you need to tell people you are doing that, so they can consent.
You think it’s some sort of choice you have between being tracked or not, but it’s not, it’s between having a fairly decentralised internet or not.
And unfortunately with recent google SEO changes almost all small blogs at this point have been wiped out. Googles own properties, Reddit and Quora, and large websites like NYT and CNET are the only websites left in search rankings.
Selling my personal info to external companies so that they can manipulate me easier is sketchy in my eyes if I don't consent
What? What are you even talking about? Google does not sell your personal info. You’re delusional
Turns out you were the uninformed one. From the context through parent posts you can clearly see this was about a website using google adsense and by that, the company sells my info to an external (google) which then tries to take advantage of me to extract money from me.
That is what I am talking about and I think this was clear from the previous posts. I think you owe me an apology
This is not how it works. You might not be medically delusional but you are saying things that are not true.
Of course it is. If you add AdSense to your website you are letting Google track your users in exchange for a cut of the profits. Of course you should have to warn your users that they are being tracked at the very least.
You say this like it's a bad thing...