As a consumer, I am perturbed the death of privacy. I don’t want to be part of the problem. I want your ad blocker to be bored when you visit my sites.
Social media is another matter. I use a tool to help me manage my accounts. It reads comments and likes from social media and feeds me reports. Given that the point of social media is to share these comments and likes, I don’t feel that’s a great evil.
I do plan to run analytics software on the software I’m writing for All Night Tarot and perhaps on this blog. I’m looking for a product I can run on a server under my control. The idea is to see what features people are using so I know where to focus my dev time. And also because I’m curious. I’m not looking to monetize the data I collect. It will be on a different subdomain, so it’s possible it will give your ad blocker something to do.
That all said, I don’t run my own physical hardware. My sites are run off servers/CDNs hosted on Digital Ocean. Here is their privacy policy if you’re curious about what they do with the data on their servers.
While we’re on the topic, please note that this is not this blog’s privacy policy, this is. The software I’m writing will have a different privacy policy. I may replace the one on this blog with that one.
My commitment to our privacy (make no mistake, they’ll eat the data about my product(s) just as joyfully as they’ll eat yours) closes the doors to most marketing and analytics tools. Maybe one day I’ll accept that it’s just a part of doing business nowadays. When/if I begin running ads, I’ll probably have to include something in the code to track which ads are performing well. But today the only personal information I want is what you choose to volunteer.