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Meh, it's quite easy to set up a website without third party (or first party) trackers. Even some github.io kind of website is better than a website with loads

Meh, it's quite easy to set up a website without third party (or first party) trackers. Even some github.io kind of website is better than a website with loads of tracker spam on it. It is not about black and white thinking, it is about putting in minimal effort and sticking to ones principles. Maybe it also involves greed for viewership, "wanting to make it big" with some article, who knows. There is not much preventing people from setting up a blog by themselves or ask someone else to help them publish in an ethical way, at least in many countries. I guess at least some positive outcome can be concluded: People, who read on those websites might learn a thing or two.

marginalia_nu 4y ago
Well it's a trade-off. Let's hypothetically say you have an important message that could save the world or something, but scream as loud as you can, you can't make everyone hear about it. You realize the only way to reach people is to do compromise with your principles, like publishing it on a major website that doesn't align with your values; which is the lesser evil, not spreading your message, or spreading it using those corrupt channels? I don't think there's an easy answer to this. It's easy to focus too much on not doing evil that you miss the opportunity cost of doing good.