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We are talking web tech user tracking - this is not about "keeping track how many hats you sold".



I’m selling my hats from an online store. How is that not “web tech user tracking”?

If it makes the analogy more palpable, I’m selling virtual hats for my video game.


You are the one playing a word game, arguing semantics. I added the "user" prefix to clarify, yet you insist on comparing apples and horse-apples. I understand your angle, yet the whole discussion is about horse-apples, so i do not see your target. My guess is "making the latter sound more palatable". Take your small "the well known term used in this thread and source article is shit" victory and be happy, you are not getting more.


I don’t get any value out of whatever weird victory you’re claiming I’m aiming for. I posed the analogy because I’m curious how people here view different kinds of tracking, and at this point I’m not happy, I’m sad that this thread became a weird attack on my intentions rather than an actual discussion.


there are no meaningful "different kinds of tracking" in this context. The word is well known and used. Arguing that there is a theoretical subset of a more general definition of the word, for which the ethical criticism of the actual common market reality that the word references in this context, may not apply, is semantically possible, but just "playing word games"




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