I’m pretty principled. I block as much tracking as I can in my personal use of the web because what I do isn’t anyone’s business but my own. So, the idea that I have to put trackers on my site is pretty noxious to me, and I have thus far refused.
This isn’t an ad and I don’t want my personal account associated with my business, so no URLs, but I would like to know what you all think: is this something worthwhile that people will appreciate, or am I letting my principles guide me off a cliff because nobody cares that much?
There’s tracking 😠 and there’s “tracking” 🤷
Keeping track of what user behaviours are like in terms of how people interface with your system should be expected. Keeping track of the information on users as they go about their business away from your site or maintaining individualised logs of users behaviour to identify them is the bad stuff. Employing dark patterns to manipulate users is bad.