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ksec04/01/20252 repliesview on HN

>the 300 tracking scripts every site has to try to squeeze as much revenue as possible

Let's say tracking for revenue is required and not an argument to be made. The question I never quite understand is why cant we have ONE scripts to rule them all? I remember there was a company / services that may be called Segment? And quick google search doesn't have anything familiar, that offers something like that.


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whstl04/01/2025

The reason we still have 300 scripts is that ad-tech companies want direct control over their tracking rather than relying on an intermediary.

So they make it harder or more limited to integrate with tools like Segment.

ivan_gammel04/01/2025

> why cant we have ONE scripts to rule them all

Because those tracking scripts are provided by competing advertising platforms and they want to own the data.

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