I installed Jerboa and noticed that it grayed the titles of posts that I had already viewed even though I had viewed them on the web. That told me (unless I am somehow confused) that the server side tracks what posts you have read.
From my perspective that seems like a terrible invasion. I can understand some benefit to showing the post status in the UI, but if it is stored at all, the storage should be exclusively on the client side. I mentioned this also in the “issues” thread and got no reaction, so maybe I’m missing something or in error.
Thanks, that is good to know, but that is a type of evil where I would hope Lemmy doesn’t follow Reddit. I sometimes posted to Reddit but I more often read passively without logging in, partly to avoid some of the tracking.
Sure. I think it’s good to be aware of for sure and I agree that it would be nice if Lemmy isn’t tracking as much. I also recognize that I’ve accepted a certain amount of tracking in my life over the years at this point.
I don’t disagree really… Just pointing out that as long as you’re logged in Reddit has always tracked posts viewed as far as I’m aware… Facebook similarly tracks all activities and always has.
These are obviously not models to aspire to but I think that it’s helpful to be aware of what we’ve dealt with up until this point.
I installed Jerboa and noticed that it grayed the titles of posts that I had already viewed even though I had viewed them on the web. That told me (unless I am somehow confused) that the server side tracks what posts you have read.
From my perspective that seems like a terrible invasion. I can understand some benefit to showing the post status in the UI, but if it is stored at all, the storage should be exclusively on the client side. I mentioned this also in the “issues” thread and got no reaction, so maybe I’m missing something or in error.
Isn’t that a browser thing, not a lemmy thing? Iirc, your jerboa history shows up in your default browser
Reddit tracked posts viewed as well.
Thanks, that is good to know, but that is a type of evil where I would hope Lemmy doesn’t follow Reddit. I sometimes posted to Reddit but I more often read passively without logging in, partly to avoid some of the tracking.
Sure. I think it’s good to be aware of for sure and I agree that it would be nice if Lemmy isn’t tracking as much. I also recognize that I’ve accepted a certain amount of tracking in my life over the years at this point.
Tracking posts is understandable. Tracking up and down votes is iffy. Tracking reading is inappropriate and invasive.
I don’t disagree really… Just pointing out that as long as you’re logged in Reddit has always tracked posts viewed as far as I’m aware… Facebook similarly tracks all activities and always has.
These are obviously not models to aspire to but I think that it’s helpful to be aware of what we’ve dealt with up until this point.