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by matsemann 1569 days ago
They don't have to run some weird JS, it's often just a 1px img with some query params loaded at the confirmation screen. In itself nothing annoying, the problem is how that data is combined with other data and profiling users.
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I haven’t seen any codebase with an actual tracking pixel in my entire career. (11 years at this point) It’s always some massive javascript file doing God-knows-what on the page.