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by frik
3883 days ago
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Why are first-party analytics like pwiki blocked? They are the good guys... it's like reading the server log, except you get also the screen resolution and a few more infos. I don't mind if a website owner gets that stats for himself. What I (and a growing number of people) mind is that huge corporations collect that stats and then track me down and crunch the data to show me "personalised ads" (of products I already bought) and categorise as a person of interest group XY and then selling that data including my email address to evil spammer YZ. |
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It is quite the sense of entitlement to think you have a right to that information. You have a right to log what people ask you (the server logs); logging anything more just makes you a creepy peeping-tom.
> I don't mind
That's nice. That doesn't mean everybody else agrees.
You're right, in general - it is the aggregation at Google (et al) that is the real problem. My point is that it is highly presumptuous to assume everybody is ok with a particular type of logging.