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Nothing. No one should pay for not being tracked.

• altairprime 5y ago
  In principle I agree, and I support having the GDPR in effect globally, so that these server-side data sharing solutions are illegal without opt-in consent. Unfortunately there’s a reality gap between “GDPR everywhere” and the United States and other countries, and that gap was being filled previously by anti-tracking lists maintained essentially for free out of the goodwill of people’s hearts. Now that Google is - and has been - using server-side proxies, those tracking lists won’t scale without human caretaking. Any human versus the entire web would burn out in a day. So the choice is either to pay humans to enforce our anti-tracking beliefs against scummy corps, or to donate to politicians that believe in GDPR so they can try to make it illegal, or to refuse to pay anything and accept the status quo of being tracked. We’ve reached the end game of the “pay nothing until it’s fixed, then continue paying nothing” ethos: Google has outplayed us, and website owners can afford to pay to track us. I don’t like this, and neither do you. I think it’s time to pay money to fight back, and you do not think it's appropriate to pay money to fight back. If you or anyone have a good idea on how zero-cost effort can somehow solve the tracking problem, share that with others in a useful reply to the post somewhere. You don’t have to convince me that such ideas exist: you have to convince others who share your “at no cost to me” beliefs to invest their time and energy in your zero-cost idea. And, whatever else I’m uncertain, I guarantee they’re not going to see such a reply down here in this thread that started with a pricing question.