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Re:Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial info... by JohnFen on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:55AM (#36695484)
> It's not like meta was buying up people's tax returns. Just negligence on the part of these tax sites.

Meta and the rest are at fault for using the data they gather from these analytics for their own purposes.

This is not a new problem, and is why I block analytics scripts and data connections to Meta/Google/etc.

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Re:Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial info... by slashdev on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @11:20AM (#36695861)
That is part of the reason they offer these services for free. Number one it's about supporting their ads businesses, but they also use it for other things to further their own objectives. People should stop using these analytics services, they're not even that good.
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Re:Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial info... by JohnFen on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:44PM (#36698603)
> People should stop using these analytics services, they're not even that good.

I agree, but that's not something that's going to happen. What do site operators care? They aren't the ones paying the price.

So the practical result is that we have to protect ourselves from the web sites. I do this by blocking domains that belong to analytics providers, and don't allow most Javascript to execute in my browser.

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