[–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It’s not always nefarious.

I work for a non-profit. Sometimes it’s helpful to understand the click rate on a mass message.

We don’t provide data to third parties and use a self-hosted oss analytics platform.

So I think folks should understand tracking and manage it but it’s not all bad. Just almost always bad. Really bad.

Worse: a lot of links can’t be fixed or modified since they use click-through services to obscure the destination.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not everyone uses alarms for sleep/wake.

    Sometimes it’s good for a forceful reminder at a specific time when it’s easier to pick a time than calculate a timer length to end at a specific time.

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