The Lesbian Romantic

This podcast and community are different

Hey,

Do you know who’s keeping an eye on you online? You can find out with the Ghostery plugin. It tells you how much trackers a website owner has installed to keep an eye on your behavior while hanging out there.

Nothing is free, you see. When you use a service or consume content that is free, chances are that someone is making money by either selling your data or selling your time.

I am proud of the fact that TLR is different. I don’t track your behavior on this website. See the screenshot below? Zero trackers! 🙂

Hey, I downloaded Ghostery and it does report trackers on this website!

I noticed that too! In the new version, their ‘Enhanced Anti-Tracking’ system anonymizes every single interaction with a third-party. If you switch it on, every interaction gets anonymized and added to the counter.

If you select the detailed list, you’ll see it’s empty because there are no actual trackers to report on this website. You’ll also see that in the bottom right corner the plugin says ‘0 looking’ even when you switch off Anti-Tracking.

I guess Ghostery is seeing ghosts? 😉 Read TLR’s full privacy statement here to find out which third-party services I use to make this website function. Also make sure to check out the cookie statement!

Okay, but wait a minute…

Wait a minute, you say, but TLR *is* free! So some things are free without the creepy or annoying stuff, right? Yes and no. TLR is freely available because it is fan-supported. Or crowd-funded.

It means I choose to rely on you giving back voluntarily to keep this podcast and community going. It’s a very vulnerable model that relies on trust and a value-for-value exchange.

It’s the only model I feel comfortable with, though. It’s the only model that fits this podcasts’ values.

If you have questions about the steps I take to protect your privacy, feel free to email me at [email protected].

6 responses to “This podcast and community are different”

  1. Marcie53

    Thank you!

  2. Marcie53

    Can or do you track our behaviour outside of this website?

    1. Sigrid
      Sigrid

      No, I do not. That would be extra creepy 😉

      In all honesty, it’s more a case of ‘Do I allow other companies to track you here.’ When a website uses Google Analytics, Google gets all that data and can track a user going from one site to the next. I don’t have Google Analytics installed so they can’t here.

      However, if you accept the third-party cookies because you wanna watch a YT video on the community, Google will be able to recognize you.

      Google and Facebook give you some features in return for installing their trackers: Analytics or the option to retarget visitors with advertising around the web. That’s the extent of what a website owner can do to follow a person after they have left the site. I think Google gives some information about where they went to, but not sure anymore.

      Many websites use a lot of other trackers to see what you’re doing, so they can optimize the experience (that’s the official line.) What that really means: they want to offer you relevant content or calls to action again and again, everywhere on the web if needed, until you buy something from them.

      Keeping this website tracker free can be quite difficult because many tools implement trackers for numerous reasons.

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    Katrina05

    Is there a way to remove the “trackers” once you see them? Or limit what they see or are tracking?

    1. Sigrid
      Sigrid

      Hey, yes! A plugin like Ghostery (link above in the post) will do that for you. They block trackers that can be blocked, and anonymize any data that has to be sent while interacting with a website.

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        Katrina05

        Thank you!

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