| > You literally wrote a one sentence comment that compares a decision for website owners to choose between not using GA and convincing their government not to clamp down on law enforcement search powers. Right, and note what I didn't say: - Whether or not those things are a dichotomy or otherwise mutually exclusive - Whether or not those things encompass the complete set of privacy violations or the mitigations thereof Your assumption that I've made or even implied answers to either of those within the words "it's much easier to not use Google Analytics than it is to convince your government to clamp down on law enforcement search powers" - and then arguing against that assumption - is where you're putting words in my mouth. It's also what makes you accusing me of bad-faith argumentation or a lack of critical thinking or context hilariously ironic. There's nothing for me to "walk back". You blew up at me for merely suggesting that businesses which should be valuing their customers' privacy can take very easy steps to actually signal that. Whether or not they're siphoning a bunch of data to third parties is a rather strong signal of whether or not they take their customers' privacy seriously, and the fact that you are not only incapable of understanding that concept but feel compelled to resort to unwarranted hostility and personal attacks in response to it speaks volumes. > GA is completely orthogonal to the entire discussion. GA is literally the context of the discussion. Just because there are other ways for others to violate your customers' privacy doesn't mean it's okay to willingly and deliberately violate your customers' privacy yourself. That you not only fail to understand this but are needlessly hostile to those who do understand this speaks volumes. If you'd like to have an actually intelligent and civil discussion instead of angrily flinging insults at me, I'd be happy to oblige. Until then, have a nice day - hopefully better than whatever tragedy you're choosing to take out on me. |
By the time I got to the invention of "angrily flung insults", and projection about bad days I had my answer...