Tell HN: The Creepiness Factor – Why I Won't Apply for Analytics Jobs

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11 years ago

I don't want to be tracked. It is for that reason that I blackhole analytics servers in my hosts file:

   127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
   127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com

Now I am very public on the Internet. What I object to is anyone at all being tracked. If you visit a website that sells strawberry jam, why should the prioprietors of that site even be permitted to know you were, say, a gay Muslim male?

On Thursday I went to a job fair in Portland, however I did not approach all of the booths. One that I did not was Rentrak, because it promised a product that identifies "how they vote". Neither did I approach Webtrends because they "invented analytics".

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