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Re:EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe... by ninalanyon on Thursday May 15, 2025 @05:26AM (#43993264)
> Either it's free or cost very little,

Whatever it costs it reduces your profit margin so why would you keep it live?

Re:EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe... by rgavuliak on Thursday May 15, 2025 @05:58AM (#43993436)
There's also studies on load times impacting conversion rates (which mostly matters at scale i.e. Amazon).

At the same time - quantifying this is not straightforward and companies mostly ignore committing resources to such activities.

Re:EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe... by aucisson_masque on Thursday May 15, 2025 @03:34PM (#43998474)
Load time is true but have been solved a long time ago, you can easily get JavaScript to load your tracker scripts after the page has been fully loaded so that the visitor doesn't have negative experience.
Re:EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe... by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Thursday May 15, 2025 @09:58AM (#43995164)
In these terms it will also be a labor cost to turn it off. That cost might be higher even if amortized over a long timespan.