That's an amazingly sinister term to describe what was the norm prior to the rise of Google Analytics and its equivalents.

I thought the same thing. It seems like marketers really hate it though.

> To combat this lack of transparency, websites can include more attractive ways to share links than simply copy-pasting into another application; ...

I guess one man's privacy is another man's "lack of transparency".

> I guess one man's privacy is another man's "lack of transparency".

A good example of this are jobs that post your salary online. Those are usually in government and some NGOs.

Interestingly, some Nordic countries allow people to see each others income tax info.