While i agree, i do think there is an aspect to it that's true. Eg, when you visit a site you, imo - agree to some degree of privacy violation with that site.

While i agree, i do think there is an aspect to it that's true. Eg, when you visit a site you, imo - agree to some degree of privacy violation with that site. Ie, it's reasonable to expect them to know your IP. It's reasonable to expect them to know your rough location. It's reasonable to expect them to know your username if you log in, and etc. What's unreasonable is the 50 sites that cascade off of an initial visit. I may have been fine giving my IP to bobsblog.com but not Google/etc. An interesting extension of this idea would be a hosting service or web framework that didn't just say something like "no javascript", but rather "no external connections with your information". All images, CSS, JS, etc would be loaded locally and nothing would make any remote connections from your IP. Come to think of it, this would be a neat "contract" that sites could agree to. Like No JS, such that browser clients could enforce it and get the expected UX on those sites. /shrug, just thinking out loud i suppose.