Your Piefed year in review
Your Piefed year in review
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/memes/p/1616905/your-piefed-year-in-review
OK then.
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PieFed absolutely tracks things such as votes on posts and comments, subscriptions, and posts and comments made.
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Yeah, I get what they were going for, but they literally have to track your every move for anything to work.
At worst it might give the users the impression their activity on Piefed isn't actually public.
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For real, though. It's always annoyed me how popular these things are. Just companies saying outright that they're tracking every fucking thing the user does, but put a "feature" bow on it and people eat it up. Uuugghh.
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Most, if not all, of these year in reviews is literally "here's a summary of the things you explicitly did on our platform while logged in to your account this year". It's kind of absurd to call that tracking. Like, Lemmy and Piefed do have that data, this meme aside. It's literally located at https://lemmy.ca/u/ech (admins, but not regular users, can also see upvotes and downvotes). They just chose not to do any sort of summary or analysis of your data for the year.
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And why do you think every service is demanding people make accounts to use their site? Or outright stating they "need" to use tracking cookies if they don't? It's for the user data. Yes, there is some obvious data that a server needs to store to make things usable, but these companies are gathering much, much more than that, and to defend the blatant ploy to acclimate users to the unlimited gathering of their information is naive at best.
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Change the number on the end of the URL to see your 2024 year in review too! Or 1999... Or 10000..
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I've changed it to the year 404 and it's pretty accurate. Good job!
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