Just found this space, I’m trying to play around with this platform. Can anyone help to explain?

  • Fudoshin ️🏳️‍🌈@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    Tracking clicks on links with JS is pretty normal. I always implemented that with Google analytics for my e-commerce sites.

    It helps you track things like downloads of files, email links, exit links, etc.

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      8 months ago

      As a former web dev, I know it’s normal industry standard stuff, but it’s really hard to give Reddit the benefit of the doubt here.

      Their tracking is completely ingrained in the webcomponent-based SPA itself, beyond what’s reasonable for anonymized analytics. Disabling cookies even broke loading content, despite being logged out.

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          In a professional capacity, it was React with TypeScript for front-end, Node for backend with Nginx to serve static assets. At the end of the day, it wasn’t really for me. I enjoy web dev for hobby projects, but working with it day after day ruined my intrinsic desire to keep doing it.

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            8 months ago

            Oooooh this is relevant to my interests!! After 20yrs doing web dev I crashed out of two jobs in 6 months completely hating coding. Can’t even bring myself to look at code nowadays.

            What did you go into after quitting web dev?