experience.tinypass.com: Piano’s Invasive Subscription Tracker

Piano’s experience.tinypass.com, formerly Tinypass, is used to track user interactions with paywalls and subscriptions on publisher websites. It collects data for analytics and personalized marketing, compromising your privacy. Here’s what this tracker does.

What Is experience.tinypass.com?

This domain supports Piano, a platform for managing subscriptions and paywalls for online publishers. It monitors how you engage with subscription prompts or content access, building profiles for marketing. As Privacy Auditors, we’re concerned about how subscription tools exploit user data.

Data It Collects

When you interact with a paywall using Piano, it captures:

• IP Address: Links your activity to a location.
• Geolocation: Estimates position from IP data.
• Subscription Behavior: Tracks paywall interactions or purchases.
• User ID: Links activity if logged into a publisher account.
• Cookie IDs: Follows you across sessions.
• Session ID: Connects actions during a visit.
• User-Agent: Records browser and device, like ‘Chrome 123.0’.
• Page URL: Captures the specific publisher page.
• Timestamps: Logs interactions precisely.

This data builds a profile of your subscription habits.

Who Gets Your Data?

Piano shares your information with:

• Publisher: Uses Piano for subscription management.
• Third-party marketing partner: Tied to Piano analytics.
• Government entity: If legally required, though no transparency report exists.
• Data processing subcontractor: Manages user data.

How to Protect Yourself

At Privacy Auditors, we’re dedicated to your privacy. Here’s how to block Piano’s tracking:

• Use Tracker Blockers: Stop this domain with Privacy Auditor tools.
• Hide with a VPN: Mask your IP using Mullvad.
• Opt for Privacy Browsers: Use Firefox or Tor for defense.
• Avoid Subscriptions: Limit interactions with paywalled content.

Combine these steps to reduce tracking.

Sources

• Piano Privacy Policy: https://piano.io/privacy-policy/

This is a legal disclaimer. All information is provided for educational purposes only.