Timeline for answer to Update to our Advertising Guidelines by ColleenV
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| Jan 12, 2024 at 12:58 | comment | added | Florian F | @Sasha if you mean Google Analytics, I don't trust them. | |
| Jan 6, 2024 at 10:53 | comment | added | user314962 | @htmlcoderexe "Trust" and "advertisers" never belonged in the same sentence, don't belong in the same sentence these days, and for the foreseeable future they will never belong in the same sentence. | |
| Dec 22, 2023 at 18:59 | comment | added | Sasha StaffMod | @Lundin Many things that appear as "trackers" are actually valid external software that we use to power our site functionality like ad-serving, analytics and cookie consent management. If you share more details on what you find concerning, we can take a look. | |
| Dec 22, 2023 at 14:17 | comment | added | Lundin | @Sasha How come my tracking blocker add-ons find up to 8 trackers on stackoverflow.com? If those aren't tracking user activity, then what are they tracking? How can I tell if that is SO spying on me against my will, or 3rd parties spying on me against my will? It's all the same to me btw: like every other person on the planet, I don't trust any private company which has made an unprofessional business decision to spy on their own customers. I would never conduct any form of business with such a company, neither as a private consumer nor as a representative of another company. | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 22:20 | comment | added | htmlcoderexe | I don't really think "trust" and "advertisers" should even be in the same sentence. | |
| Dec 18, 2023 at 20:39 | comment | added | Kryomaani | @Sasha then what data are you sharing with them that is interesting enough for them to pay for? Do you not consider enabling them to link their existing customer profiles to specific SO/SE users sharing our data? That kind of statement without explaining further appears incredibly deceptive. | |
| Dec 15, 2023 at 22:19 | comment | added | ColleenV | @Sasha What makes you think SE is not included in the "companies" I referred to? So advertisers won't know what page their ads are being shown on? Regardless, I block all that tracking the best I can, so I don't care that much. I don't think y'all have a very good grasp of just how intrusive this is or how much you're expecting us to trust that you aren't going to mess up and leak stuff you said you weren't going to share. The best option is to not allow you to collect it in the first place, so I guess I'll spend a lot more time logged out. | |
| Dec 15, 2023 at 21:32 | comment | added | Sasha StaffMod | While we don't plan to disclose a list of programmatic partners, we can share that there are currently fewer than 10 that meet the eligibility criteria for this kind of partnership. You can learn more about that here. | |
| Dec 15, 2023 at 21:31 | comment | added | Sasha StaffMod | To be clear, we are not sharing any data about SO/SE users with advertisers. You can read more about that in this comment. | |
| Dec 14, 2023 at 12:28 | comment | added | ColleenV | Just in case my position isn’t clear… There is no company that can be trusted to responsibly invade people’s privacy. They are going to hoover up data, including potentially sensitive health information, travel plans, workplace issues, school issues, work projects, et al. It is virtually impossible for someone to allow only a little private information to leak to advertisers when they aggregate so much data to make inferences about an individual. | |
| Dec 14, 2023 at 3:21 | comment | added | Kryomaani | Of course they won't. | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 18:40 | history | answered | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 4.0 |