[ocdtrekkie]

On one hand, it sounds like it's only on marketing pages, which I never visit anyways.

On the other hand, in December 2020, they said "We are also committing that going forward, we will only use cookies that are required for us to serve GitHub.com" and apparently in corporate terms, a "commitment" lasts less than two years now.

Presumably the main change here is Nat made this commitment and Nat has since left Microsoft, but it's hard to believe their marketing team thinks the data value from a couple marketing pages is worth the PR hit from this. Just a dumb--- business move, really.

[landhar]

The 2020 announcement for reference: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

This is very reminiscent of the “why whatsapp doesn’t sell ads” [1]. A good reminder that we should never trust any long term promises from companies.

[1] https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads/?lang=en

[fxtentacle]

And that's why you should never buy a software subscription with proprietary file formats.

[zzo38computer]

Someone suggested using a different domain name for the marketing pages. I think that this would be a good idea, then you can clearly tell the difference. And, if the different domain name is something other than "GitHub.com" then the commitment mentioned in December 2020 is still valid.

As long as it only affects the enterprise marketing pages (which, like you, I do not use) and it is clearly documented (unfortunately some of the documentation changes seem confusing, and I am not the only one who thinks that), then I have no problem with this.

(I do not use GitHub for my own projects, but I do use it to view other projects and to communicate with other projects that do use GitHub. In future I might also set up mirrors of my projects on GitHub, but the main working of the project will not be on GitHub.)