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A clarification question.

The first point you are planning to remove states that "Stack Overflow never sells or shares your activity data with third parties."

The current profile section stating no data is shared

Some time ago ColleenV pointed out that

if you are allowing a third-party advertiser to know what page I'm on when you serve their ad and you allow them to send a tracking pixel that uniquely identifies me, you ARE sharing my activity data with a third party

To which Sasha replied:

I have asked our legal team to look into this to make sure the language used accurately reflects what happens on the back end.

Screenshot of the original comment by Sasha, in case it gets deleted

Consider the timing, should we take this change as a confirmation that the legal team suggested to remove that line as it didn't match what was really happening?


Update: I have just noticed that one of the available request types on the data request page is... "Do not sell my information".

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A clarification question.

The first point you are planning to remove states that "Stack Overflow never sells or shares your activity data with third parties."

The current profile section stating no data is shared

Some time ago ColleenV pointed out that

if you are allowing a third-party advertiser to know what page I'm on when you serve their ad and you allow them to send a tracking pixel that uniquely identifies me, you ARE sharing my activity data with a third party

To which Sasha replied:

I have asked our legal team to look into this to make sure the language used accurately reflects what happens on the back end.

Screenshot of the original comment by Sasha, in case it gets deleted

Consider the timing, should we take this change as a confirmation that the legal team suggested to remove that line as it didn't match what was really happening?

A clarification question.

The first point you are planning to remove states that "Stack Overflow never sells or shares your activity data with third parties."

The current profile section stating no data is shared

Some time ago ColleenV pointed out that

if you are allowing a third-party advertiser to know what page I'm on when you serve their ad and you allow them to send a tracking pixel that uniquely identifies me, you ARE sharing my activity data with a third party

To which Sasha replied:

I have asked our legal team to look into this to make sure the language used accurately reflects what happens on the back end.

Screenshot of the original comment by Sasha, in case it gets deleted

Consider the timing, should we take this change as a confirmation that the legal team suggested to remove that line as it didn't match what was really happening?


Update: I have just noticed that one of the available request types on the data request page is... "Do not sell my information".

enter image description here

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ꓢPArcheon
  • 39.3k
  • 6
  • 85
  • 156

A clarification question.

The first point you are planning to remove states that "Stack Overflow never sells or shares your activity data with third parties."

The current profile section stating no data is shared

Some time ago ColleenV pointed out that

if you are allowing a third-party advertiser to know what page I'm on when you serve their ad and you allow them to send a tracking pixel that uniquely identifies me, you ARE sharing my activity data with a third party

To which Sasha replied:

I have asked our legal team to look into this to make sure the language used accurately reflects what happens on the back end.

Screenshot of the original comment by Sasha, in case it gets deleted

Consider the timing, should we take this change as a confirmation that the legal team suggested to remove that line as it didn't match what was really happening?