[…] Editorial by Bart: IMO that article is flawed, conflating utterly legitimate software-as-a-service app analytics and creepy privacy-invading tracking. As a result I think it’s overly sensationalistic and OTT, but that doesn’t mean the problem is not real. For-profit business built around free apps are either going bust, or, somehow monetising their users! In reality that generally means selling their users attention and personal information directly, or, running at intentional losses so they can sell the company to new owners who will then start monetising the amassed user-base directly (freepi or free-for-now by my service/software classification model — www.bartbusschots.ie/…) …