I mean...yeah? I feel like this has never had to do with technical convenience, but brand awareness. Facebook et al. never cared whether that thing was clicked, but having your company's logo under virtually every news article, blog post, you name it? Priceless.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago

Your brand logo that also loads a tracking cookie.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, it's about tracking.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yes and no. Like, if they were forced to cease the tracking part, they wouldn't say "Ok, then don't bother to show our brand all across every website". As long they are allowed, obviously they will also track the shit out of everybody.