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I wouldn't exactly categorize "everyone can see your data" and "we can now track your movement on our own site" together.

The idea of surveillance, in this case, is that no 3rd parties can snoop on your data. If you are actively using a site, it should be under the assumption that they can and will track anything you do on their site.




> no 3rd parties can snoop on your data

And Google is what... ?


Someone you are willfully sending information about requests to? What's so hard to understand. Just because you let your doctor put his finger in your ass doesn't mean you want to let everyone...


Except with external analytics you are letting your doctor to finger other people's asses. See the difference?




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