when you say the govt. do you mean NSA? They likely have far more valuable data than cookie sessions and marketing tracking

I don't like most data retention policies either, but a lot of that is required by law.

Maybe, but it's not useful. Businesses are not going to go out of their way to associate some behavior of yours to your IP if there's no name. There's zero reason to do this.

Even in ecommerce where you provide your name and address, companies never really look at that information other than for support tickets. All of the marketing is automated and insights come from aggregate data. Nobody actually knows or cares about you or what you buy.

Maybe, but it's not useful. Businesses are not going to go out of their way to associate some behavior of yours to your IP if there's no name. There's zero reason to do this.

Even in ecommerce where you provide your name and address, companies never really look at that information other than for support tickets. All of the marketing is automated and insights come from aggregate data. Nobody actually knows or cares about you or what you buy.

That is sadly true, and also there are a lot of people who "cares about privacy", but at the end gladly sharing data online 😂

Nobody has as much privacy as they think they do.

I’ve never seen anyone look at any IP addresses or care about any personal data. It’s always looked at in aggregate.

Therein lies the problem. It is not like company decides one day to spy on people’s habits (visited sites, ads clicked, things purchased, etc), it happens gradually and one day the line is crossed. The common question each company asks is, how do we increase our revenue?; what data can we utilize to improve customer retention; what other customer segments can we tap into? This goes on gradually, and one day we are collecting large datasets with a lot of information about customers that can tell the company how to “manipulate” them into more purchases and spendings. I am not saying it is spying, but if that data are used by the government branches to use against individuals, companies are powerless in most cases. 🐶🐾🫡

Not really. Some things you can track with server side statistics but this is extremely limited and you cannot assure that something you see in the statistics is because of xy in the frontend

Some people seem to think cookies and tracking scripts are there to collect data and sell it, spy on you and whatnot…

But most companies I’ve worked with just use it to improve their business metrics, conversion rates, attribution, and make smarter business decisions.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t track less or at all, but a lot of that activity is mundane and mostly harmless.

They always ask me how my trading is going. They never ask me how my day is going.

I feel you. So much to do but I can't help but keep starting new projects... 😭

Btw, starting from 0 can keep you humble 💜🦙

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Good morning ☀️

Whenever I have some snacks at home like chips, chocolate you name it I cannot withstand

That’s why I normally don’t have such things at home 😅