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Re:Show HN: Free Service to Find a Therapist by dewey on Friday October 11, 2019 @07:52AM (#21223429)
How would you know it's doing evil stuff from the outside though?
Re:Show HN: Free Service to Find a Therapist by TeMPOraL on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:10AM (#21224510)
I wouldn't, but the last time we had a story here where mental health websites were sending sensitive data to advertisers, they did it in such a dumb way you could spot it easily on the network tab of your browser's dev tools. Haven't seen anything like here in my brief look.
Re:Show HN: Free Service to Find a Therapist by dhruvmanchala on Friday October 11, 2019 @01:28PM (#21226512)
The form, where we collect user data, is not hosted by us, and is hosted by a HIPAA-compliant vendor. What particular data was being shared in your story?
Re:Show HN: Free Service to Find a Therapist by TeMPOraL on Friday October 11, 2019 @02:34PM (#21227087)
Re:Show HN: Free Service to Find a Therapist by kube-system on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:20AM (#21225221)
Other than the fact that Facebook and Google know that you’re looking for therapists...
Re:Show HN: Free Service to Find a Therapist by cfitz on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:21AM (#21223599)
Including the Google Analytics library and Facebook Pixel on your site at the very least sends each and every pageview back to both of those entities. If the developer has implemented custom conversions, even further behavior is tracked.
Re:Show HN: Free Service to Find a Therapist by dhruvmanchala on Friday October 11, 2019 @01:29PM (#21226521)
What are your thoughts on having those pageviews tracked? We could turn them off if people weren't comfortable.