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Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by ksec on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:49AM (#26990509)
Modern day politics thinks All Tracking and Targeting are morally wrong. And anything against that are politically incorrect. This isn't just Twitter or Social Media, it is mainstream media also painting the same picture.

A perception question: if the New York Times records every story I read on the site in the last month as a registered user, and uses that to determine what ads it shows me, is that 'tracking'?

Out of 5,877 vote, 83% thinks that is "tracking".

Which means in the modern day perception, any observation with regards to its user or anyone will be considered as "tracking". Which violate their privacy. The modern day usage of "privacy" has been twisted to mean more like anonymous.

All thanks to Apple's PR.

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Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by Nasrudith on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:56PM (#26996923)
It is an overly broad and reductive concept but there is an implicit carve out - if it is literally required for the function. Putting aside the protocol captain obvious level of "a computer needs to know when your IP address asked for it to send the webpage to you" level, an online store with no tracking of transactions would be a useless mock up. No payments would be placed nor orders delivered.
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Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by Bjartr on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:10AM (#26992383)
How is recording, as you put it, distinct from tracking?
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Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by ksec on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:26PM (#27009073)
Let's assume they are the same in literal sense. The problem is the current trend is about Zero Tracking, which means in the above example NYT could not even record the article their user have read on their site.

And it was a poll from Benedict Evans. [1], Thanks to him there is at least some sanity still on the internet.

[1] https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1387414650443141120

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