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And yet this article is on a page completely saturated by trackers, 28 items blocked by Ublock Origin, and another 14 blocked by Privacy Badger by my count. I d

And yet this article is on a page completely saturated by trackers, 28 items blocked by Ublock Origin, and another 14 blocked by Privacy Badger by my count. I didn't even bother to check the number of items caught by the pihole, and I'm sure there are a few things that got through because they haven't made it into the relevant blocklists yet. People can bemoan the lack of privacy (and should) but it's empty words until we're willing to take a stand and not participate in the systems that are mining every bit of data that can be had en-mass.

centimeter 6y ago
LitHub is a shitty leftist agitprop outlet, so don’t expect consistency.
- medicineman 6y ago
  As if the title didn't tell you everything you needed to know.
ntsplnkv2 6y ago
> People can bemoan the lack of privacy (and should) but it's empty words until we're willing to take a stand and not participate in the systems that are mining every bit of data that can be had en-mass. That's the problem that is so poignantly illustrated by this post - you can't not participate, or you lose. That's what makes it so insidious and why we shouldn't just dismiss good arguments out of hand for this reason.
- Daho0n 6y ago
  >you can't not participate, or you lose Sure you can unless you shoot yourself in the foot and try to run an online ad business without ads or tracking.... Our businesses website has exactly zero trackers and zero external calls, yet we live just fine. If I really want to see some stats I can just look at it via the webserver logs. This is just people being lazy and/or greedy.
sudosysgen 6y ago
"You dislike capitalism, yet you participate in it. Curious!" It's almost as if you don't have much of a choice to participate.
- jevgeni 6y ago
  NOT add trackers on this post?
  - sudosysgen 6y ago
    Possible for a blog or passion project. If you're attempting to make money out of it then you don't have that much of a choice because you have to compete against people that do. I still personally prefer they didn't but I don't fault them if they didn't.

centimeter 6y ago

LitHub is a shitty leftist agitprop outlet, so don’t expect consistency.

medicineman 6y ago
As if the title didn't tell you everything you needed to know.

ntsplnkv2 6y ago

> People can bemoan the lack of privacy (and should) but it's empty words until we're willing to take a stand and not participate in the systems that are mining every bit of data that can be had en-mass. That's the problem that is so poignantly illustrated by this post - you can't not participate, or you lose. That's what makes it so insidious and why we shouldn't just dismiss good arguments out of hand for this reason.

Daho0n 6y ago
>you can't not participate, or you lose Sure you can unless you shoot yourself in the foot and try to run an online ad business without ads or tracking.... Our businesses website has exactly zero trackers and zero external calls, yet we live just fine. If I really want to see some stats I can just look at it via the webserver logs. This is just people being lazy and/or greedy.

sudosysgen 6y ago

"You dislike capitalism, yet you participate in it. Curious!" It's almost as if you don't have much of a choice to participate.

jevgeni 6y ago
NOT add trackers on this post?
- sudosysgen 6y ago
  Possible for a blog or passion project. If you're attempting to make money out of it then you don't have that much of a choice because you have to compete against people that do. I still personally prefer they didn't but I don't fault them if they didn't.