A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings

Re:A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings by Erratic6576 on Monday February 19, 2024 @01:21AM (#39426697)

I would like to make the argument that the increased attention from Google will exert an enshittification pressure in code quality due to the sudden appearance and accumulation of trackers, until the web is finally sold to any big publishing company, and, eventually, to an AI training company.

Browsing HN is a relief in times of Surveillance Capitalism

Edit: HN uses google tagmanager and analytics; amplitude and branch.io

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Re:A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings by dang on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:01AM (#39426899)

> HN uses google tagmanager and analytics; amplitude and branch.io

We do? No we don't? I don't even know what those are.

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Re:A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings by piva00 on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:26AM (#39427025)

I don't see any requests to any analytics or Google Tagmanager, actually the only requests I see when opening a post are to the `news.ycombinator.com` domains to fetch the document itself, a CSS file, a JS file, an image and a couple of SVGs, nothing else.

If you see requests outside of that there's something fishy going on in your browser, I believe.

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