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by humpty-d 269 days ago
So just track you on the back end instead? I don't know what that really changes. If you mean to say just not track you at all and show you untargeted ads, well they are worth less, so they'll have to blast you with more of them.
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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 269 days ago
> I don't know what that really changes.

It changes what they assume to do with my hardware and user agent.

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humpty-d 269 days ago
Why be cryptic and weird when you can just plainly say whatever it is that you actually mean? Communicate clearly, nobody knows what the f you're on about.
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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 269 days ago
> cryptic and weird

Mine is a common opinion within this community. I won't deny that I was short in my replies but it is hard to know what is over-explaining in this context.

Additionally, it seems that "tracking with javascript" is pretty much exactly the topic of these comments so I'm not sure why I should not have assumed that it would be clear what I meant, especially when my first comment was explicitly about YouTube tracking on the back end.

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