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Comment by ricardobeat

10 hours ago

So.. they continue having access to private identifiers, while you willingly give it up to "protect privacy"? Piping all of that data into a massive central database instead of your nginx logs? How is this supposed to be better?

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AtNightWeCode  4 hours ago

I guess the point is that a site owner can opt-out from the possibility to locate end-users. I think the use case is fair but not that common.

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