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Matthew
RalfMaximus

@mrblissett

I'm not sure what you mean by "contain a russian tracker". It's a self-funded site run by a single Russian citizen, based somewhere in Europe. There is no malware, nothing is installed, nothing is 'tracked'. All according to the article you linked. It does not appear to be an FSB operation or tied to the Russian government in any way.

Is the implication that because they are Russian it's a bad/dangerous site?

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1 September at 3:06 | Open on mastodon.social
T. T. Perry

@mrblissett

The article you shared ends with "I for one will be buying Denis/Masha/whoever a well deserved cup of coffee."

... So I guess the author isn't alarmed?

1 September at 3:24 | Open on mastodon.social
Matthew

@ttpphd

Probably just respect for technical skill.
I would hope it isn't a foreign government, but again there's that Russian tracker 😕

1 September at 10:52 | Open on mastodon.social
T. T. Perry

@mrblissett

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

1 September at 13:56 | Open on mastodon.social
rootfake

@ttpphd @mrblissett it literally says "uses a Russian analytics engine", calling that a "Russian tracker" would be like calling Google analytics an "American tracker" or the way you're using it, a "cia tracker". Like, I block all analytics stuff for privacy reasons, and all analytics services know way too much about everyone, but most of the Internet uses one service or another, it's not malicious by itself.

1 September at 17:55 | Open on mastodon.social
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