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Yeah server logs don’t bother me. I’m requesting a resource, you unavoidably see that happen.

The attitude that’s changed is that in the 90s and 00s a program that sent information about what you’re doing that wasn’t necessary and expected for how it operates would have been instantly, popularly, and unequivocally labeled spyware by a programmer crowd. Now it’s normal and you get a bunch of folks claiming it’s ok.

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Worse, you get a bunch of programmers claiming it's impossible to write software without that level of spying.



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