Comment by tgv
5 years ago
IMO, it's not the web-developers, it's the web-site owners. The devs (well, the small sample I know) is not interested in collecting user information to make a better fingerprint.
5 years ago
IMO, it's not the web-developers, it's the web-site owners. The devs (well, the small sample I know) is not interested in collecting user information to make a better fingerprint.
It's usually marketing teams who aren't thinking about privacy implications, just how to perpetuate or further engagement.
Seemingly innocuous features they devise to streamline engagement often come with huge privacy implications and I've had to shoot down ideas many times in my career that were well into the realm of creepy.