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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by frik on Friday October 30, 2015 @02:05AM (#10476359)
Why are first-party analytics like pwiki blocked? They are the good guys... it's like reading the server log, except you get also the screen resolution and a few more infos.

I don't mind if a website owner gets that stats for himself. What I (and a growing number of people) mind is that huge corporations collect that stats and then track me down and crunch the data to show me "personalised ads" (of products I already bought) and categorise as a person of interest group XY and then selling that data including my email address to evil spammer YZ.

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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by pdkl95 on Saturday October 31, 2015 @05:20AM (#10482226)
> except you get also the screen resolution and a few more infos.

It is quite the sense of entitlement to think you have a right to that information. You have a right to log what people ask you (the server logs); logging anything more just makes you a creepy peeping-tom.

> I don't mind

That's nice. That doesn't mean everybody else agrees.

You're right, in general - it is the aggregation at Google (et al) that is the real problem. My point is that it is highly presumptuous to assume everybody is ok with a particular type of logging.

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