Show HN: Epic levels of tracking from a website

2 points by _Understated_ 8y ago ↗ HN

I was looking into alternative mail clients for Windows and came across a site called AddictiveTips [0] and was immediately shown their cookie and spying declaration.

I use UBlock Origin and block all third party cookies and empty my browser when it's closed and I thought I had seen it all with newspapers taking the piss with their trackers but these people are showing an extreme level of contempt for visitors.

If I am to interpret them correctly, they want to save hundreds of cookies on my computer and pass my data to potentially dozens and dozens of third parties, some of which (in fact a fair few) duplicate the efforts of others.

WTH?

[0] - https://www.addictivetips.com/

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ChrisGranger 8y ago ↗

Wow, that is truly ridiculous. I've been a long-time browser of that AddictiveTips, but with uBO and other tools removing the nasties, I'd never noticed just how much garbage that site is serving.