Re:Ask HN: Privacy Badge for Websites?
by JohnFen on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:02PM
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I'm skeptical of the idea for a number of reasons, but I don't see any harm in someone trying.
My skepticism is based on questions like:
How is the presence of tracking determined? It can be hard to detect tracking when done by the site itself, and even harder to determine if that site allows access to the data it has collected.
Will people pay any attention? The web is full of various badges and certifications (mostly around security), and I expect that most people are blind to them now. Would they notice a new one? And if they did, would they consider it actually meaningful?
How would the badge-granting process minimize the gaming of the system. You work in SEO, so you know very well how such things can be gamed.
I have a number of other such questions, but I think those are the big ones.
My skepticism is based on questions like:
How is the presence of tracking determined? It can be hard to detect tracking when done by the site itself, and even harder to determine if that site allows access to the data it has collected.
Will people pay any attention? The web is full of various badges and certifications (mostly around security), and I expect that most people are blind to them now. Would they notice a new one? And if they did, would they consider it actually meaningful?
How would the badge-granting process minimize the gaming of the system. You work in SEO, so you know very well how such things can be gamed.
I have a number of other such questions, but I think those are the big ones.