This is just straight up wrong. If you see an “Edit in Canva” or whatever button in an editing suite or software by even a medium sized technology company, it’s not a surface controlled and tracked by Canva - it would have been implemented by a developer working for the editing suite or technology company or whatever. Those kinds of features are usually part of user growth agreements in which one company pays the other (or reciprocally expects to refer a similar number of users) to be featured. Engagement is typically tracked internally for contractual reasons, but I’ve never heard of it being shared with third parties (because doing so would almost always violate privacy policies and open up the company to lawsuits).
Source: I’ve worked on exactly these kinds of buttons.
When viewing public content, like YouTube or Maps, sure you’re right. But that’s besides the point given that the post clearly refers to editors, not just viewers.
On cloud editors where my documents are non-public until I explicitly enable public access “for anyone with the link” - by using the share button - it’s not much tracking but literally required functionality. Even if we ignore corporate crap, that also applies to privacy focused, self hosted options like Immich
Can’t I just export to a file and share that? Yes, in some cases, but not in all. I might need collaborative features or I’m working on a weird type of document where I can’t expect the recipient to have compatible native software installed, or it might be in a work context where my personal choices for software might be limited.
this “editor” is probably a electron app that shows you a web app, or some other web based thingz so every vendor connected to that button is collecting data all the same like every other website
That’s clearly not a social share button depicted in the drawing. It’s an os / custom sharing button. Not to mention social share buttons don’t necessarily load from the shared platform’s own website, run javascript or track you across browsers.
It sounds like you’re both talking past each other re: is it the “share on Facebook” tracking thing, or the smartphone “share” button that is just how you export a file these days.
Those buttons aren’t there to be used. They contain tracking links.
Don’t even need to click them for them to track you 🙂
This is just straight up wrong. If you see an “Edit in Canva” or whatever button in an editing suite or software by even a medium sized technology company, it’s not a surface controlled and tracked by Canva - it would have been implemented by a developer working for the editing suite or technology company or whatever. Those kinds of features are usually part of user growth agreements in which one company pays the other (or reciprocally expects to refer a similar number of users) to be featured. Engagement is typically tracked internally for contractual reasons, but I’ve never heard of it being shared with third parties (because doing so would almost always violate privacy policies and open up the company to lawsuits).
Source: I’ve worked on exactly these kinds of buttons.
…what
When viewing public content, like YouTube or Maps, sure you’re right. But that’s besides the point given that the post clearly refers to editors, not just viewers.
On cloud editors where my documents are non-public until I explicitly enable public access “for anyone with the link” - by using the share button - it’s not much tracking but literally required functionality. Even if we ignore corporate crap, that also applies to privacy focused, self hosted options like Immich
Can’t I just export to a file and share that? Yes, in some cases, but not in all. I might need collaborative features or I’m working on a weird type of document where I can’t expect the recipient to have compatible native software installed, or it might be in a work context where my personal choices for software might be limited.
this “editor” is probably a electron app that shows you a web app, or some other web based thingz so every vendor connected to that button is collecting data all the same like every other website
That’s clearly not a social share button depicted in the drawing. It’s an os / custom sharing button. Not to mention social share buttons don’t necessarily load from the shared platform’s own website, run javascript or track you across browsers.
Share buttons exist because people use them.
It sounds like you’re both talking past each other re: is it the “share on Facebook” tracking thing, or the smartphone “share” button that is just how you export a file these days.
I’m not sure what you mean to say by posting this picture. Maria’s comment was,
Which, given the context, made me think of the “share on Instagram” buttons you see on other Web pages, but not this picture.