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Tracking
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2008–2024), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Tracking, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- Shared links are very long and cluttered with tracking parameters2024-07-21
- Tracking links keep users on retailer sites that are hard to navigate to the real tracking page2024-02-23
- Must remember to open app, navigate several screens to enter one data point2023-01-17
- Accidentally passed the last page and could not work out how to go back2022-05-24
- Decline option hidden or harder to reach than accept on consent forms2021-12-03
- Opt-out switches are buried in deep menus and some silently turn back on2019-07-16
- Ads blinking in and out while scrolling make reading the article unbearable2019-04-11
- Added trackers and ads make the finished site borderline unusable2018-05-07
- Front page is intimidating and confusing to a first-time visitor2008-04-03