>Honestly, I don't see how open/free software can fix it. For example google analytics is commonly used through web, source code of the tracker is available as

>Honestly, I don't see how open/free software can fix it. For example google analytics is commonly used through web, source code of the tracker is available as raw text in javascript, and where is the promise of open/free software? Sure one can install tracking blocker (like ghostery), but just because the track itself is open source (most pages source code is accessible as raw text) - tracking hasn't been magically fixed for web, and people still play cat-mouse with track blockers. A much better example is the new telemetry in OS Chromium, OS .NET core, and OS VSCode.