And why do you think every service is demanding people make accounts to use their site? Or outright stating they “need” to use tracking cookies if they don’t? It’s for the user data. Yes, there is some obvious data that a server needs to store to make things usable, but these companies are gathering much, much more than that, and to defend the blatant ploy to acclimate users to the unlimited gathering of their information is naive at best.
Companies are tracking you, but if you want a feed or the ability to post, comment, upvote/downvote and block users, you kinda need accounts. We could always go for the 4chan experience instead, of course …
And why do you think every service is demanding people make accounts to use their site? Or outright stating they “need” to use tracking cookies if they don’t? It’s for the user data. Yes, there is some obvious data that a server needs to store to make things usable, but these companies are gathering much, much more than that, and to defend the blatant ploy to acclimate users to the unlimited gathering of their information is naive at best.
Companies are tracking you, but if you want a feed or the ability to post, comment, upvote/downvote and block users, you kinda need accounts. We could always go for the 4chan experience instead, of course …
Off topic, but 4chan is exempt from Australia’s recent social media minimum age laws because of the fact that it doesn’t require accounts.