> NYT needs to know how long you spent, on which articles, etc. They need data to produce the product and you can only achieve that with javascript tracking pixels (Server logs aren't good enough).
This just seems like such an abuse of what the web was meant to be. I can imagine the horror people in the 90s would have experienced if they new what JS was going to be used for when perusing news sites.
Sometimes I wonder if it would have been better keeping the web as a document platform without any scripting, and creating a separate one for apps.
Anyway, an alternative model news sites could use is to let users choose which content they want to pay for. That's a way to track which content users prefer.
This just seems like such an abuse of what the web was meant to be. I can imagine the horror people in the 90s would have experienced if they new what JS was going to be used for when perusing news sites.
Sometimes I wonder if it would have been better keeping the web as a document platform without any scripting, and creating a separate one for apps.
Anyway, an alternative model news sites could use is to let users choose which content they want to pay for. That's a way to track which content users prefer.