Trackers
Believe it or not, some stores sympathise with you. They might actually be run by people like you, people who read your story.<p>They still want to know how you proceed round the store, because that helps them optimise shelf layout, identify hard-to-find items, and so on. So yes, they might use the standard in-store CCTV to observe your journeys, and when they figure that you and people like you always have difficulty finding the eggs (seriously - why is it always so hard to find the eggs?), they&#x27;ll move the eggs somewhere more prominent, so they can sell more eggs and you can buy what you came to buy.<p>But that&#x27;s as far as it goes. They don&#x27;t follow you out the store, let alone into your bedroom. They don&#x27;t match anything with third-party data, let alone your mobile phone number. The store just wants to know where to put the eggs.<p>Unfortunately, your bouncers have simply been told to &quot;hurt them if you have to, I’ve really had enough of it&quot;. So last time they came in, they smashed the CCTV cameras. The store-owner remonstrated with them a bit but the whole debate around bouncers has become so polarised that there was really no point arguing.<p>---<p>And if this metaphor seems a little obscure, this is why it is irresponsible, populist and ultimately self-defeating for uBlock and chums to block self-hosted Piwik and other such internal analytics tools. Because some of us are trying to do the right thing and your bouncers are still beating us up.