They probably embedded tracking pixels because PR teams wanted to have data on how many people viewed the page vs how many people actually filed a report.
Why do I get feeling time and time again that developers pick the easy solutions. Not the sensible ones.
Some type of page download counter should not be impossible, and number of reports should also be easy metric. Why do they even think they need to get someone like Facebook involved...
In almost all organizations outside of IT, IT is at the bottom of the social ladder. They gotta do what management wants.
And that won't change until enough large organizations get hit hard by fines that everyone else follows suit and hires actually capable CTOs with veto power over everyone else.
