> Those examples are not design related... I disagree. I'll grant that if you narrowly idealize 'the visitor' to be a content-consumer who never chooses to 'vi

> Those examples are not design related... I disagree. I'll grant that if you narrowly idealize 'the visitor' to be a content-consumer who never chooses to 'view source' (let alone use a command-line user-agent to interact with a website), minifying/bundling HTML/JS doesn't affect the 'visitor experience' design. However, hidden tracker JavaScript definitely impacts every visitor's experience, and directly betrays the 'honest and transparent interaction with a visitor' the author desires: > a button agrees to submit the visitors information to the server. Hiding this interaction behind a hyperlink or unadorned text betrays the core nature of a website. The JavaScript tracker hides its interaction behind the browser's JavaScript engine, which is a much greater betrayal than any poorly-styled hyperlink or button.