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"With your agreement, we and our *830* partners use cookies or similar technologies" - this must be some joke I fail to understand. What an absurd number.


Just last week I came across a site that listed over 1500 "partners". I' wonder if anyone from that company can tell me who each of those is and what they are used for?


This is because you have one vendor who does a specific task (ie audience matching for a data management platform or third party audience vendor) and that vendor uses tens/hundreds of vendors to power their product. So you place a single 1x1 image pixel, but that can call one of many different scripts.


If there’s a sniff of a chance that they’ll make $1 from these partners they’ll sell us all down the road…


Modern internet has become absurd.


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That’s absurd.




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