Research shows that there are tons of trackers out there

Hey folks,

As I peruse twitter, I came across some very interesting research about trackers on the internet. These are of course estimates, and Nord VPN did the research.

Your typical news site has quite a number of them, health sites also have tons, but the typical site that has to follow GDPR has the least.

Here at jaredrimer.net, the tech blog does allow you to like posts, tweet them out and the like, but I, Jared Rimer, do not know who clicks these buttons and it doesn’t interest me.

Remember when I posted about Giving Tuesday? Well, one person took advantage of it and we thank them, but we don’t disclose who they are. And on top of it, our logs are flushed every day and I’m not interested in looking at logs to see how many visits I have on any of my properties..

My other bigger site, MENVI doesn’t have any tracking capabilities that I know of besides what the server does by default of running on it.

I don’t need to collect data from people unless they contact me first. I don’t understand why websites need to download logs, peruse through them, see who clicks on ads and the like. I understand that impressions are what count when you pay money to advertise on a site, but who has the time to download logs and look at that data?

I don’t, for sure. One of my twitter followers posted this on their timeline, and the article is titled You’re not wrong – websites have way more trackers now.

Thanks Tech Radar for posting a very interesting article, and I hope that we can have more research like this.

I know that I’ve looked at the privacy report on my iphone, and jaredtech.help shows one, and jaredrimer.net shows 7, all of them Google or Twitter properties. I know what’s New on jaredrimer.net has an applet where the what’s new information is displayed and that came directly from Twitter.

What Google Code, I’m not sure because the Scripts i use are third party but I’ve never had a problem.

What it may be, is the cookies on my phone not being able to track me to my site, seeing that it is designed that way.

However it works, I know that my sites are safe, and most others are as well, but the research itself is quite interesting. I just searched jaredrimer.net’s raw page in code and don’t find any reference to Google or Twitter on the main page, so I am not sure if what I’m seeing for myself is correct on my own page.

Maybe someone with more experience in this can contact me about things like this and we can learn together.

Thanks so much for listening, reading and participating!