On the internet, you are a consumer or you're the product. You're paying for something, or you yourself are being sold. Dreamlist isn't "completely private." Read their privacy policy.
> "We may share information about you in anonymous and/or aggregated form with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, research, analysis and other similar purposes."
If you think that savvy companies can't use other databases to aggregate user profiles and deanonymize data... well, you're the perfect user for Dreamlist!
EDIT: Or, as I found out by clicking on the parent's user handle, you actually founded Dreamlist. I might humbly suggest at this point, Diana, that you're open and forthright about the fact you sell data to other companies. Even if you're completely dutiful in anonymizing data, you have no control over what is done with the data once you sell it.
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For what it's worth, I'm much more worried about the privacy implications of Dreamlist than Alexa. With Alexa, I know I'm giving access to my logged-in Amazon profile/account to anyone with access to my device. With Dreamlist, no one knows who my data is being sold to.
No data is being sold and no wishlists are being indexed to google. I built DreamList for my own family first. I work daily to make it safe for my kids to use. If you google DreamList and any competing wish list / registry brand and a common first name (or yours) you will see who keeps user data private (everyone else will show you thousands of personal wishlists and registries, we don’t, and preventing that is deep in our architecture choices). I suggested to the Cloudflare Team that they need to build backend analytics into their platform years ago, and they did it. I use that data to report our growth to the YC Startup School dashboard. We had google analytics which is why we had to add that disclaimer in the privacy policy, but we are actively trying to find a better more reliable solution on the backend instead. Front end metrics are still needed because we have many nontechnical users who are grandparents or families in need being added to gift drives and we need to know when something goes wrong for them and narrow down what the issue might be. For google analytics we cut off all fine grained tracking - no per user data, no integrated ads consoles, and only the landing pages that have no private user data get indexed. If we remove it completely, Google lowers SEO rankings. Every day the numbers diverge more between google and Cloudflare analytics given fhe increased use of built in browser ads blockers, and that makes us happy. We’d never add facebook pixels or viglink or other ad network JS into the site.
We went deeper than that, testing to make sure no data about the user leaks at any point even in the console, or caching, or any other section. External links go through one redirect page that removes source page information, so everything looks like it’s coming from the main site. If you have feedback, especially about privacy, please feel free to send it feedback@dreamlist.com - we push out changes and updates almost daily.
We noticed a well known billion valued startup ended up showing their employee emails in the network tab data streams of the browser console, because apparently they like to access people’s private content on occasion and their system leaves a trace of that that shows on every page visit. That’s why we also added a private memories and journal section for anyone on DreamList as well. Grandparents who are frequent users need to be able to save stories for loved ones, and we want them to have a place to do that that is private and ads free.
Always open to feedback. The site is bootstrapped and definitely looking for contributors.
> "We may share information about you in anonymous and/or aggregated form with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, research, analysis and other similar purposes."
If you think that savvy companies can't use other databases to aggregate user profiles and deanonymize data... well, you're the perfect user for Dreamlist!
EDIT: Or, as I found out by clicking on the parent's user handle, you actually founded Dreamlist. I might humbly suggest at this point, Diana, that you're open and forthright about the fact you sell data to other companies. Even if you're completely dutiful in anonymizing data, you have no control over what is done with the data once you sell it.
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For what it's worth, I'm much more worried about the privacy implications of Dreamlist than Alexa. With Alexa, I know I'm giving access to my logged-in Amazon profile/account to anyone with access to my device. With Dreamlist, no one knows who my data is being sold to.