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  • I’ve heard that this is instinctual. We have evolved to find crying and upset children intolerable because it motivates us to do something about it.

    Children are also exceptional and figuring out how to push our buttons because they instinctively find and repeat behaviors that get a reaction out of their caregivers when they desire attention.

    Unfortunately the most motivating emotions are often negative ones.

















  • The ability to alter the tracking is an exploit, not a feature. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad it’s possible, but it seems more a result of a lazy implementation rather than a generous choice.

    Not any more than any other tracking method.

    This isn’t true. There are more opaque ways to track this like cookies, redirects (triggering an api call), and scripts. These could also be exploited depending on how they’re done, but it would be way less obvious than just changing the URI.

    It just seems like they chose the simplest method, thus hampering the effectiveness of their greed.