TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

Re:TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameter... by re on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:37PM (#28579093)

It's unusual to see the word "silently" used as a selling point these days. In headlines, it's almost always used in the context of some bad behavior and as such has taken on negative connotations for me. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=silently

I plugged the title of this post into a few online sentiment analysis tools and they both rated it as having negative sentiment. If the author sees this, you might want to swap it out for another word like "automatically" in the readme.

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Re:TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameter... by bobbyi on Saturday September 18, 2021 @11:46PM (#28581522)

"Transparently" is a conceptually similar word that had positive connotations

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Re:TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameter... by e_proxus on Sunday September 19, 2021 @07:11AM (#28583401)

Or in this case ”automatically”.

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Re:TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameter... by hoppyhoppy2 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:47PM (#28585770)

>If the author sees this, you might want to swap it out for another word like "automatically" in the readme.

On the other hand, giving up on using "silently" in a positive light does nothing to push back against its negative connotation and cedes the word to the negative Nancys. The author doesn't appear to be trying to make a living from this and I appreciate their using language they want to use whether or not it's approved by the marketing department.

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Re:TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameter... by rknightuk on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @01:42PM (#28607537)

I wasn't happy with the use of "silently" but I kept forgetting to remove it. It's now been updated. Thanks for the feedback.

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