• nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 hours ago

    but client side requires the client to cooperate. and the client is regularly not under your control.

    I can’t make sense of your second sentence.

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      23 hours ago

      The client needs to “cooperate” to do anything, including showing whatever it is says “please don’t block our ads :'(”

      I mean that merely observing behaviour is not spying, because that covers any interaction. So what makes this spying?

    • MoonRaven@feddit.nl
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      23 hours ago

      Unless you’re blocking Javascript, they have control to see what elements are loaded.