Jim, I'm not sure if you've worked doing web development, but I agree with Nick that you can get a lot of performance data from these services (not just tracking or marketing) which is incredibly useful. People visit websites with all sorts of combinations of browsers, OS'es, and extensions -- and no matter how good of a test system you have, you'll never be able to accurately predict each combination and weird side effects will happen.
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 6:08 AM Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 3 May 2019, at 11:47, Nick Hilliard (INEX) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > third party trackers allow incredibly detailed and useful telemetry > > information to be collected about the performance and usage characteristics > > of a web site, which provides invaluable feedback to the dev and mgmt team, > > and without which it would be really hard for them to do their jobs. > > That may well be true for the oxygen thieves from planet marketing. However I > fail to see how any of this guff is remotely relevant to the NCC, the people > who oversee after our web site(s) or the broader RIPE community. > > If someone at the NCC needs to use spyware to do their job, they’re probably > in the wrong job. There are plenty of openings at other places of business > for people who want to sell adverts or analyse tracking data. > >
