Pando Daily:
Pretty much every page you visit contains at least one piece of tracking code — watching where you click, how long you stay, and how often you come back.
What I didn’t know is how absolutely out of control the number of trackers on popular sites has become. It’s actually horrifying.
I don’t know if it’s “horrifying” but it certainly is instructive what sites do what kind of tracking on your visits.
Paul Carr should maybe ask his devs before he writes. Disqus? TypeKit?
He got a list of things that he admits he knows nothing about and then decided they’re all EEEEVIL.
sigh.
For some odd reason there is this funny perception that even affects people who grew up in times when it was normal to pay for things (like books, news, music, movies and other things we have finally discovered to be entitled to by mere birth), that everything just magically became free once it was online. The pretty simple fact the the delivery type has merely no effect at all on the total cost of a product or service, that music does not compose and play itself, that authors do not write books while buttering styrofoam subs at Subways (well, it’s not really butter either) and so on… seems to be lost on us.
We have the world we deserve. I am not religious, but working seven days in a row seems to be nothing even the most advanced quality management can make up for.
Of course do the majority of free services need to spy for data they can market, what else is left for them? This all will come to a grinding halt once everything is free and nobody is left to pay for advertising.
so…you’re not running ghostery or similar plugins, out of the goodness of your heart to those gosh darn sponsors? how kind.