Users don’t need to interact with them, when a site adds the button to their page it allows that code to track you around the net. It’s still generating revenue even if you never click on it.
Sites still add them because it makes them money at the expense of your privacy.
Sites still add them because it makes them money at the expense of your privacy.
You can also consider it a form of advertising for the platforms. The buttons not only suggest for the user that they should use an indicated platform, but give them an immediate way to engage with it as well. It’s manipulation, all the way down.
Users don’t need to interact with them, when a site adds the button to their page it allows that code to track you around the net. It’s still generating revenue even if you never click on it.
Sites still add them because it makes them money at the expense of your privacy.
Yeah, but you can do the same tracking without actually displaying any buttons, so the point stands.
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Yes, you can do tracking without displaying any buttons, I don’t know what to tell you.
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Yeah, and all I said is you can do tracking without them, as you confirmed, so I don’t know what you are disagreeing with.
Ever heard about tracking pixel?
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Careful. Canvas is way more than a tracking pixel.
You can also consider it a form of advertising for the platforms. The buttons not only suggest for the user that they should use an indicated platform, but give them an immediate way to engage with it as well. It’s manipulation, all the way down.
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