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@aral Thank you for the latest guide. I hope I am in the 5% by using URL strippers, email cloaking, and other tools when not on TOR.

@aral
Isn't it a good thing they say it out loud?
Everybody is/was already doing it and that's a/the (big) problem.
Any sense of morals appears to be completely absent with capitalism :-/

And people who believe that 'anonymous' (or 'anonymized') data exists, are delusional.
So I consider it a positive that someone sets the record straight.

@FreePietje @aral Oh you can be anonymous, but it takes effort, more effort than should be necessary, and more effort that most people have time or willingness to do...

@FreePietje It’s always good when a Martin Shkreli pops up to make it impossible to ignore how horrible certain industries are, yes.

@aral
`Using the unique (non-PII!) identifiers in the URL` 🤣

I'd really like to see his face when a lawyer tells him that unique identifiers are always PII and he still needs consent for this.

@datacop @aral "especially top of funnel when those users are almost always anonymous" Referring to people arriving at your site as entering a "funnel"! We just are a stream of liquid from which to squeeze profit from, it seems 🙄

@aral @Framasoft
I just started a WordPress blog. Any good link on how to set up privacy friendly statistics tool to still have a rough idea of which posts are more or less popular? Then from these data's, how do we know, or is there statistics about if they are real reader or bots, maybe the view duration might be useful, is it possible without cookie and without tracking people specifically?