[PrivacyBadger] second party web site responsibilities on third party trackers

[R. Jason Cronk]

I agree.

It is exceedingly difficult for small operators, especially those 
without technical skill, to know what's going with the services they 
use. Consider a non-profit hosting a WordPress site on a hosting 
provider. The provider installs Google analytics for them to track 
visitors. They add a theme to the WordPress site, which uses Google 
fonts and perhaps some additional widgets that are provided by third 
party trackers. They add social media buttons for visitors to like or 
tweet their page. They have no clue what's going on under the hood.


Jason





On 2017-09-03 11:24, Tomas Nordin via PrivacyBadger wrote:
> Hi Privacy Badgers
> 
> I have a somewhat fuzzy question I guess. I use privacy badger at all
> times and I think it's great, thanks for your hard work.
> 
> Reading the information on trackers [1], most of the text discuss third
> party trackers being bad for privacy and that it ought to be wrong that
> companies that you had no intention to visit or request something from
> get to track the user.
> 
> But I would just like to hear your opinion on the second party web
> site's responsibility. I guess that sometimes it is not easy for the 
> web
> site I visit to know that trackers sneak in among the services they are
> using for their web site. Still, somehow I feel that the third party
> tracking opportunity starts with how the second party web site is
> designed.
> 
> For example, it is not rare that I visit some site that seems to be 
> some
> sort of non-profit .org site, seemingly free from ads, yet there is a
> long list of trackers blocked by privacy badger. In such a case, what
> should I think about the ethics on that site (the site I am visiting).
> Is this just happening out of their control, or should I understand 
> that
> as if they are selling ads in some sneaky way, as compared to clearly
> displaying ads to the user, advertising through tracking?
> 
> [1] 
> https://www.eff.org/privacybadger#faq-What-is-a-third-party-tracker?
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