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Hi everyone, can I just say before I start that I really enjoy this forum and I do not want to be misunderstood as being in any way ungreatful or critical of what has been put together here.
Getting down to brass taxes, according to my privacy browser duckduckgo, growfruitandveg uses tracking cookies, and without using Google Chrome browser I can't access the forum at all. I click on the forum button and nothing happens. If I scroll down the page I can see the forum live feed and I'm able to click on a thread, but again nothing happens. This leads me to suspect that growfruitandveg has been coded in such a way to stop people from using the forum who are not prepared to surrender their right to privacy, and whose use of the site is tracked with every click.Some people, like myself, choose to protect their privacy online, or at least minimise the data they give out.
According to my other browser : Google analytics, Google advertising and criteo are 3 of the major tracking companies mining this site. Furthermore, and most worrying to me, the privacy practices of growfruitandveg are listed as 'unknown' meaning it's unclear exactly what data growfruitandveg mines.
There are many people now especially unhappy with how Google is monopolising the web and mining everyone's data and have chosen to boycott Google services. At the moment I'm not one of them, but as my other browser allows me to see just how invasive some of the aggressive marketing and spying is, it's making me more aware and wary of continuing to use Google services into the future. Sadly that will mean boycotting websites that are intertwined with Google because they make money in add revenue, and by intertwined I mean websites that lock down their users in such a way as to make parts of their site inaccessible if they don't comply.
Growfruitandveg is currently rated a C,+ for it's privacy policy, to give an example, youtube has a D rating, which is one of the worse there is, and although it's one of many websites with forums whose privacy rating is equally as bad, I've never before encountered the inability to access the forum of any other website besides this one.
I'd be very interesting to hear back from people about this, and to repeat again, I really enjoy this site and enjoy using it and it's not a criticism especially not of the mods who likely have no say in how the website is coded and how the privacy and access features are put together, and who do a good job.
Thanks for reading if you've gotten this far.
Getting down to brass taxes, according to my privacy browser duckduckgo, growfruitandveg uses tracking cookies, and without using Google Chrome browser I can't access the forum at all. I click on the forum button and nothing happens. If I scroll down the page I can see the forum live feed and I'm able to click on a thread, but again nothing happens. This leads me to suspect that growfruitandveg has been coded in such a way to stop people from using the forum who are not prepared to surrender their right to privacy, and whose use of the site is tracked with every click.Some people, like myself, choose to protect their privacy online, or at least minimise the data they give out.
According to my other browser : Google analytics, Google advertising and criteo are 3 of the major tracking companies mining this site. Furthermore, and most worrying to me, the privacy practices of growfruitandveg are listed as 'unknown' meaning it's unclear exactly what data growfruitandveg mines.
There are many people now especially unhappy with how Google is monopolising the web and mining everyone's data and have chosen to boycott Google services. At the moment I'm not one of them, but as my other browser allows me to see just how invasive some of the aggressive marketing and spying is, it's making me more aware and wary of continuing to use Google services into the future. Sadly that will mean boycotting websites that are intertwined with Google because they make money in add revenue, and by intertwined I mean websites that lock down their users in such a way as to make parts of their site inaccessible if they don't comply.
Growfruitandveg is currently rated a C,+ for it's privacy policy, to give an example, youtube has a D rating, which is one of the worse there is, and although it's one of many websites with forums whose privacy rating is equally as bad, I've never before encountered the inability to access the forum of any other website besides this one.
I'd be very interesting to hear back from people about this, and to repeat again, I really enjoy this site and enjoy using it and it's not a criticism especially not of the mods who likely have no say in how the website is coded and how the privacy and access features are put together, and who do a good job.
Thanks for reading if you've gotten this far.
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