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by Zalos 3765 days ago
Looks interesting, took some time to figure out the connection to Discovery but now I know. I think I´ll be holding out until 4k/UHD has been added. Space documentaries in 4k would be awesome. And a bunch of other stuff. I´ve subscribed to the newsletter to keep an eye on you guys, and the 4k feature. I find it a little iffy that if I go to Netflix I can login and watch stuff without any problems, without privacy badger going off. (It´s something like ad-block that stop external sites tracking my browsing and stops ads). If I go to your https://app.curiositystream.com/ I get a completely white page, like the page is broken, making me think the site is a hoax the first time I checked the page. Turning off my privacy settings and enable all tracking from external sites have the page looking normally and telling me, okay there is something there to subscribe to potentially. But why do you need all this to show the page correctly?

Some of the external stuff tracking on https://app.curiositystream.com/ are:

insight.adsrvr.org googleads.g.doubleclick.net connect.facebook.net (Something recognizeable yay, but no login or sign up with facebook, then why?) www.googleadservices.com fonts.googleapis.com www.googletagmanager.com (Google stuff is to be expected) js.maxmind.com cdn.optimizely.com js.stripe.com cdn.taboola.com platform.twitter.com (Again no sign up with so why twitter?)

There is a bunch of stuff that I don´t know about or trust, so why do you need it? why should I let it run? and if your app page needs it, it´s a safe bet it will be needed if I subscribe. I don´t like the thought of that. Can you elaborate on this? I tried a bunch of combinations as to how little I could let through the page for the site to work correctly, I diden´t find a combination that worked other than, enable everything to view it normally.

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Thanks for the feedback! So all of those are pixels that we use for marketing to do 2 things.

1st is to track conversion coming from our ad's on those platforms.

2nd is remarket to people who visit our page. We find that many customers may visit the site once or twice before they actually convert, so we found it really effective to be able to specifically show more ad's to those people.

Just curious if you know which plugin or blocked asset might have caused that white page? We try to test with most ad blockers and privacy plugins to ensure our sites work without them. We definitely don't require them to use the site.

If you email me the logs in your browser console when the white page shows up it might help us debug it(matt.petitt@curiositystream.com). And once it's fixed if you decide to become a member I'd be happy to hook you up with a deal as a thanks for helping us out.