I’m pretty principled. I block as much tracking as I can in my personal use of the web because what I do isn’t anyone’s business but my own. So, the idea that I have to put trackers on my site is pretty noxious to me, and I have thus far refused.
This isn’t an ad and I don’t want my personal account associated with my business, so no URLs, but I would like to know what you all think: is this something worthwhile that people will appreciate, or am I letting my principles guide me off a cliff because nobody cares that much?
kinda. Majority of people don’t care and those that do will block it. Im fine with telemetry in general and for things I trust im fine allowing it through. It really comes down to selling it to third parties that is the issue. They then hoover it up and combine with all sorts of other data sources and a some central places slices and dices it. It can be anonymized but it just takes a few dots connected and the anonymization is out the window. Just gets worse with llms and stuff being able to poor over data.
All fair points, confirming some of my suspicions. This kind of direct practical experience is exactly what I was hoping read when I posted this question. Really appreciate you taking the time to respond and expand on that, thank you!