Ask HN: Anyone want to code up a badge for sites with no tracking?
With all the talk lately about a lack of privacy, and the tracking from social networking buttons, Google Analytics, and similar services, does anyone want to setup a site that generates a <i>this site respects your privacy</i> badge?<p>The site could simply provide a list of different size badges you can paste into your code. It also provides a list of guidelines that should be followed in order to use the badge. Of course, this is all on good faith of the webmaster, but I imagine popular sites will adhere to the rules, otherwise their community will quickly discover the discrepancies. You could try coding some javascript in the badge code to check for no tracking scripts, but it&#x27;s probably unnecessary since it could be cheated a million different ways.<p>I run a few sites with a million+ page views a day, and I&#x27;d make the necessary changes to display an attractive little badge in my footer. It would obviously link to this site, explaining the badge, and how my site does not track users. I find a lot of my success is from respecting my community, and if I can do something along these lines, it gives me another leg up over the competition and their social spam, helping to show I value my users.<p>In short, the little icon or badge needs to be recognizable, and professional. The site it links to also needs to be well written, highlighting the importance of no tracking. It&#x27;s basically a one or two page site, but it needs to be done right, and not gimmicky.<p>Thoughts?