Questions tagged [tracking]
For questions about the various ways users are being tracked across the Stack Exchange network (e.g. Google Analytics).
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Does SE track previous website access?
I am wondering if math.stackexchange.com tracks or otherwise has a record of specific user-initiated access to the site, from a certain device at a specific time and date.
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Honour the Do Not Track header
2011-10-26: waffles's answer to Do Not Track header:
We do not do anything special for the proposed spec. There is no requirement anywhere that we implement anything. A bill may be passed in congress ...
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The Flow State homepage is tracking users without consent
I just took a look at the Agenda of the SO Flow State conference, and I noticed that it seemed a bit absurdly slow and buggy for such a simple site. So I poked around with the dev tools and noticed ...
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Introduce an optional "SE Gold" subscription so that we can support SE directly without ads + tracking + venture capital
As an alternative to peddling ads and tracking, building Fortune 500 SaaS, and raising endless venture capital funding rounds, Stack Exchange should investigate an optional tier of monetary support ...
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The cookie consent dialog (coming from cookielaw.org) keeps popping up
Recently, every time I hit a new page in Stack Exchange, whether it be the list of questions in a given forum, or a specific question, I get a pop-up like this:
Your privacy
By clicking “Accept all ...
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Shield icon in Firefox: Tracking attempts blocked
When browsing sites in the StackExchange network, Firefox shows a shield by the address bar, and if you hover it it says "Tracking attempts blocked".
Why is this shown?
What does StackExchange sites ...
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How to use Stack Exchange without letting Google track me through its reCAPTCHA?
Sometimes Stack Exchange thinks I'm a robot and it asks me to do some reCAPTCHA but the reCAPTCHA doesn't load and I get this in my logs:
The resource at “https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?...
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What code is getting retrieved from scorecardresearch.com and why? What data is collected? [duplicate]
When loading SE sites in the browser is slow, I see scorecardresearch.com flashing by in the browser status bar.
The page source shows that scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js is retrieved.
What data is ...
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I’d like to be able to use SE without allowing all the Google tracking [duplicate]
At the moment, I’m using a second, less restrictive Firefox profile to use SE. In my normal profile, I try to block everything from loading I didn’t really ask for. Sadly that breaks SE, as I can’t ...
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Are users trackable from outside over the network?
If I use one and the same account for all sites in the SE Network, can people from outside link my activity on different sites, even when I choose different names?
I am aware that of course the ...
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How to handle possible user tracking through images?
I have come across a site-meta question that ended up on the Hot Meta Posts side bar. At the time of writing, that post has about 1000 views.
Accidentally I noticed that OP used his own server (his ...
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Clicking on "track a tag badge instead" removes tracking controls
Today I went to my profile on Open Source beta and clicked on "track a tag badge instead" option in the leftmost frame. Since this moment, the section doesn't show any controls whatsoever:
I observed ...
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Tracking potentially problematic situations in SO
First of all, I want to highlight that I am aware about the feelings of this community regarding keeping track of friends/foes: in SO specific persons are not important, but questions/content.
I do ...
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badge progress tracker bugged [duplicate]
This cannot be right, can it? It seems that the tracking is not synchronized with the actual badge awarding mechanism. Perhaps there is a bug in the awarding and I should have this badge already, or ...
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Does Stack Exchange have an official policy on honoring "Do Not Track" browser settings?
I know that everyone in the world today wants to know pretty much everything (possibly more than one's spouse) about everyone.
Does Stack Exchange have an official policy on honoring Do Not Track ...
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