Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS

Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by CaptSpify on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:28PM (#16162809)

Yeah, I would just leave that site. But if you implement that feature using known simple and stable, tech, you wont really have that problem.

> Remember: incentives. The goal of a web developer is to make sites people use.

The goal should be to empower users. Anyone can make a site that people "use"

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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by fixermark on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:44PM (#16162983)

Does empowering users get the web developer paid?

I mean, in an ideal world, of course it does. But again: incentives. Keep in mind: search engines themselves are extremely empowering, and they are not generally considered to be something a person pays directly for.

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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by CaptSpify on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:45PM (#16170541)

Yeah, empowering users does get developers paid. I get paid to do that myself, and know a lot of other people who also get paid to do that. Of course it's sometimes easier to get paid by treating users like cattle. But if someone doesn't intuitively understand why screwing their users is a bad idea, I'm not sure I can help them.

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