i do not value your privacy, which is why my website does not have any trackers on it what so ever.

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva frontpage lol

[zlatko@social.zlatko.dev]

@aeva @pupxel see the initiator - that's some extension, not your site.

(Probably)

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@zlatko @pupxel I don't see it showing up in any of the pages I checked, so hopefully it's just an extension

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel I don't see that at all. did you get pwned

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva hehe was adblocker :3

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel noice

[mitsunee@mk.absturztau.be]

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place ​​ 👈 the foxthing appears to have opened your website

[kdelta@privacysafe.social]

@aeva Same with my website and my apps. I couldn’t give a toot who is using them and what for. I hardly have the time or skills just to keep them running properly nevermind snoop code! 🤣

[ei3jdb@mastodon.radio]

@aeva Mine says "Since this server is located in GDPR-land, you should know that I am a person, not an organisation. This website doesn't track users, it only logs accesses along with IP addresses. The only reason I might get personal data about you is if you communicate it to me — for example, you email me details about yourself. If you don't want to do that, please don't."

[mattkirbylondon@infosec.exchange]

@aeva Less "We take your privacy, seriously" and more "We don't take your privacy." 👍

[oddtail@meow.social]

@aeva

Ha! Reading a website say "we value your privacy" makes me about as trusting as it would to hear a gaunt, deathly pale man in an opera cloak and with widow's peak say "I value your blood".

In a vaguely Eastern European accent.

[rachel@transitory.social]

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place Tracking? My blog is a static site served from an object storage bucket. I have no idea if anyone outside of fedi has even seen it. Access logs are kept just long enough to be fed into some basic security tooling to prevent malicious actors and that is it, and I am absolutely too lazy to look at them before they get purged

[ruckbank@mastodon.social]

@aeva hey I'm pretty new here and want to be as much privacy focused as possible I have a site (ruckbank.com ((only half finished)) ) a personal portfolio. And I can track how many people see my site on what platform and for how long and so forth.. seems like I unintentionally collect data. My question now is can you see such metrics on your site, is this "normal" and can you do anything about it?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Ruckbank my webpage is static html & css that I wrote entirely by hand. when i want to add something, i modify my offline copy and then upload it to my server using ssh which copies the new files over the old ones. it's very old school. i know it keeps absolutely no visitor metrics because i never wrote any, and never will.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Ruckbank if you're using some kind of hosting service or framework, there's probably a setting somewhere you'd have to switch off to disable visitor metrics entirely. there's always the chance that some 3rd party component might also be phoning home. tbh modern web development sounds really awful to me because of stuff like this, so i just make webpages more or less the same way i did when i was twelve XD

[ruckbank@mastodon.social]

@aeva thank you for your answer. I came to the same conclusion as you. I host via namecheap.com so probably it is that. I looked into it and on the file manager there are files that are not mine so probably have to disable it somewhere 🙃. Thanks and keep up the good work 😉

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Ruckbank god speed :)