[f_salmon]

That's that 1 thing I just don't get:

Everybody's (rightfully) complaining about mass surveillance and what do apparently all web devs do (the people who actually understand tech and know what all this means)? They include endless scripts and background requests (which of course track everybody) to CDNs and whatnot in every single website, instead of simply hosting their stuff themselves and using http://piwik.org/ to get their user stats.

It's really, really stupid.

[DanBC]

Someone on HN recently commented about how they'd use customer details (people buying games) and check them out on Facebook. I suggested it was a bit creepy. Other people were surprised I thought it was creepy and thought it was normal behaviour.

I would link but search is unusably broken on mobile.

[j_s]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7165109