Ask HN: How much tracking is okay?
I am personally against most kind of tracking, especially the kind of invasive tracking that Google or FB does to target ads. But what about tracking your users within your own website to find what is working and what is not? For example, is it alright to track which country the traffic is coming for and which pages are more popular for each country, or to see if any people reffered from an external link is actually buying any product? On one hand I believe this data is important for business decisions, decisions which can really make or break the business. On the other hand, I am confused how much of it is actually different than what facebook or Google does. How do judge which tracking is ethical, where do you draw the line on what's invading privacy and what's not? Or is it a black and white question where either you track or you don't without any middle ground? 1 comments on Hacker News.
I am personally against most kind of tracking, especially the kind of invasive tracking that Google or FB does to target ads. But what about tracking your users within your own website to find what is working and what is not? For example, is it alright to track which country the traffic is coming for and which pages are more popular for each country, or to see if any people reffered from an external link is actually buying any product? On one hand I believe this data is important for business decisions, decisions which can really make or break the business. On the other hand, I am confused how much of it is actually different than what facebook or Google does. How do judge which tracking is ethical, where do you draw the line on what's invading privacy and what's not? Or is it a black and white question where either you track or you don't without any middle ground?
I am personally against most kind of tracking, especially the kind of invasive tracking that Google or FB does to target ads. But what about tracking your users within your own website to find what is working and what is not? For example, is it alright to track which country the traffic is coming for and which pages are more popular for each country, or to see if any people reffered from an external link is actually buying any product? On one hand I believe this data is important for business decisions, decisions which can really make or break the business. On the other hand, I am confused how much of it is actually different than what facebook or Google does. How do judge which tracking is ethical, where do you draw the line on what's invading privacy and what's not? Or is it a black and white question where either you track or you don't without any middle ground? 1 comments on Hacker News.
I am personally against most kind of tracking, especially the kind of invasive tracking that Google or FB does to target ads. But what about tracking your users within your own website to find what is working and what is not? For example, is it alright to track which country the traffic is coming for and which pages are more popular for each country, or to see if any people reffered from an external link is actually buying any product? On one hand I believe this data is important for business decisions, decisions which can really make or break the business. On the other hand, I am confused how much of it is actually different than what facebook or Google does. How do judge which tracking is ethical, where do you draw the line on what's invading privacy and what's not? Or is it a black and white question where either you track or you don't without any middle ground?
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