> I mean, you know that the shops you go to know what products you're buying from them, right?
They know what products are selling. They don't necessarily know what I personally am buying.
The point of those loyalty program cards is to associate purchasing habits with repeat customers. Those cards, you may note, are opt-in. To belabor the analogy, this was the equivalent of my grocery store putting cameras all over the building and offering me a mask if I wanted to opt out of the user monitoring program.
"Everyone else is doing it" is a pretty bad reason when many of your clients chose to do business with you at least in part because you are not doing it.
> They know what products are selling. They don't necessarily know what I personally am buying.
The vast majority of people use credit cards, which would allow them to track you. If you want to be more anonymous, you can use cash, just like you could install a blocker extension if you want to be more anonymous in the browser.
> To belabor the analogy, this was the equivalent of my grocery store putting cameras all over the building and offering me a mask if I wanted to opt out of the user monitoring program.
Indeed, my local grocery store added cameras all over recently, and apparently many of them use bluetooth trackers. I don't even think they offer masks, though I've never asked.
> "Everyone else is doing it" is a pretty bad reason when many of your clients chose to do business with you at least in part because you are not doing it.
Did gitlab pitch themselves as a privacy-centric git host? I thought their main selling point used to be that they had unlimited private repos. I could be wrong though, I haven't followed them much.
They know what products are selling. They don't necessarily know what I personally am buying.
The point of those loyalty program cards is to associate purchasing habits with repeat customers. Those cards, you may note, are opt-in. To belabor the analogy, this was the equivalent of my grocery store putting cameras all over the building and offering me a mask if I wanted to opt out of the user monitoring program.
"Everyone else is doing it" is a pretty bad reason when many of your clients chose to do business with you at least in part because you are not doing it.