For real, though. It's always annoyed me how popular these things are. Just companies saying outright that they're tracking every fucking thing the user does, but put a "feature" bow on it and people eat it up. Uuugghh.

Change the number on the end of the URL to see your 2024 year in review too! Or 1999... Or 10000..

I've changed it to the year 404 and it's pretty accurate. Good job!

PieFed absolutely tracks things such as votes on posts and comments, subscriptions, and posts and comments made.

Yeah, I get what they were going for, but they literally have to track your every move for anything to work.

At worst it might give the users the impression their activity on Piefed isn't actually public.

And why do you think every service is demanding people make accounts to use their site? Or outright stating they "need" to use tracking cookies if they don't? It's for the user data. Yes, there is some obvious data that a server needs to store to make things usable, but these companies are gathering much, much more than that, and to defend the blatant ploy to acclimate users to the unlimited gathering of their information is naive at best.

Companies are tracking you, but if you want a feed or the ability to post, comment, upvote/downvote and block users, you kinda need accounts. We could always go for the 4chan experience instead, of course ...