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We're totally anti-surveillance, and that's why we let a bunch of companies track you around the Web, here's the list of requests (potentially tracking you) made behind your back:

optimizely.com googleapis.com amazonaws.com heroku.com googleusercontent.com google-analytics.com newrelic.com chartbeat.com chartbeat.net youtube-nocookie.com googlevideo.com google.com

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Yes, that's a great & valid point. We use those to gain intelligence on how to build more effective communications. At the same time, we totally encourage you to use plugins like Ghostery & NoScript, That way, you'll be protected from those services across the entire net. VPNs are also a great tool.

If you use Firefox, here's another plugin I made, which you might dig - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/happy-bonobo-...

Is this an honest response or are you trolling? This is not a troll question, as I really don't know the answer.

You can't decry government spying while simultaneously ignoring spying by large companies. They're both equally wrong.

The only message I got from this website was, "We don't get it."

Sorry you didn't like the site. We aren't perfect, but we make an effort to constantly improve. I'll bring up your concerns relating to tracking in the next meeting.

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