A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term

Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by naravara on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @10:28AM (#32070475)

Honestly instead of a cookie law I wish GDPR has imposed a rule that required all those stupid interstitial pop-ups to conform to a standard that could be easily blocked by the browser. I mean they are asking for emails, which is a massive and totally unnecessary proliferation of personally identifiable information.

I hate them so much. It makes it feel like so much more of a chore to try to do research or look for things online. I'd honestly prefer 56k page-load speeds if the pages were free of this garbage.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term by jdlshore on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:25AM (#32071306)

Pet peeve: GDPR is not the cookie law, and is fact a very sensible collection of restrictions on how companies can collect and process personal data. The annoying banners you see are against the spirit of the GDPR, and quite possibly against the letter of it, too.

[ Parent | on HN ]