{"id":11607,"date":"2021-01-14T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=11607"},"modified":"2021-01-16T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T12:52:13","slug":"privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=11607","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you concerned with privacy may appreciate that <em>no<\/em> website in any of my domains has <em>ever<\/em> used Google Analytics.  Nor have these websites ever had a re&auml;ction button (such as to <q>Like<\/q> an entry) connected to Facebook or any other such service. (Those re&auml;ction buttons allow visitors to be tracked <em>even if the visitors do not click on them<\/em>.)<\/p> <p>On the other hand, the videos embedded in some of my entries use <code style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">IFRAME<\/code> elements, and those elements involve sending a request from your browser to the host of the video file, <em>even if a visitor doesn't start the video<\/em>, so they might be used to track him or her.  All these videos were once hosted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a>, most but not all have since been moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/\">BitChute<\/a>.  I may move <em>every<\/em> video to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/\">BitChute<\/a>, to reduce potential tracking of my visitors.<\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder ; font-variant: small-caps ;\">&#91;Up-Date<\/span> (2021:01\/15)<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">:<\/span> At this point, visitors are simply not tracked by Alphabet while here.  All <em>embedded<\/em> videos are hosted on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitchute.com\/\">BitChute<\/a>.  There are <em>links<\/em> to some videos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a>; but, unless a visitor follows these links, Alphabet is unaware of the visit to a page containing the link.<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">&#93;<\/span><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those of you concerned with privacy may appreciate that no website in any of my domains has ever used Google Analytics. Nor have these websites ever had a re&auml;ction button (such as to Like an entry) connected to Facebook or any other such service. (Those re&auml;ction buttons allow visitors to be tracked even if the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4],"tags":[1155,1572,1569,1571,774,1570,1154,1547],"class_list":["post-11607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-public","tag-facebook","tag-google-analytics","tag-iframe-elements","tag-iframes","tag-privacy","tag-reaction-buttons","tag-tracking","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11650,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions\/11650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}