dont know why errbody has to track each other. in the old days they'd just send you a catalog and if you were interested in something you could just buy it
It's more to answer the question if you make any money at all doing it, it's easy in advertising to spend more on ads then you make in sales from those ads
But the ad buyers aren't the ones doing the tracking. They pay intermediaries like Facebook to do the tracking.
It's the data sellers that are the problem in GP's post. Companies like Experian and Visa who have huge amounts of data and naturally cannot resist making a buck off it.
Don't forget about credit rating agencies, and the US Post Office, and ...
The tracking has always been there, it's just now becoming harder to ignore. It sucks, but it's possibly also a good thing because people are finally starting to care.
> This change is only on subdomains, like resources.github.com, where GitHub markets products and services to enterprise customers. Github.com will continue to operate as-is.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 81.1 ms ] threadIt's the data sellers that are the problem in GP's post. Companies like Experian and Visa who have huge amounts of data and naturally cannot resist making a buck off it.
Tangent: how many volumes would an Amazon catalog be?
How many products and companies would Amazon remove if they had to pay for each page in their catalog? Either way it would be a massive improvement.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/consumer-privac...
The tracking has always been there, it's just now becoming harder to ignore. It sucks, but it's possibly also a good thing because people are finally starting to care.
The PR is a better resource https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/582
Privacy is just a useless buzzword and means nothing to the tech bros working at big tech companies because they need more ads.