I have trouble accepting that as mere negligence (vs. gross negligence). Anyone hosting a website should be familiar with the trackers and other cruft that com

I have trouble accepting that as mere negligence (vs. gross negligence). Anyone hosting a website should be familiar with the trackers and other cruft that comes from third parties they utilize. This is why I'm incredibly choosy about what libraries I use and which third parties I allow to put content on my site (directly or indirectly). If you don't have good insight on this you have no business including their assets/snippets. I use open-source analytics tools that run entirely on my infrastructure, not the junk from Meta etc. "Everyone else does it" is not a palatable excuse. These companies are known for having user-hostile, privacy-invasive reputations, so as developers we should by default be wary of them. E.g. Including a Facebook "Like" snippet on your page lets them siphon all sorts of data from your visitors, particularly if the user hasn't logged out of their Facebook account. It's not how users expect the web to work, and it's an insidious technique (they're deliberately taking advantage of thousands of unwitting webmasters who don't understand the baggage that snippet comes with). More examples here: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-you-even-when-youre-not-on-facebook-a7977954071/ https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privac... Frankly, even if USPS was unaware, the data still ended up in those third party hands via their services so as far as I'm concerned, yes, they did facilitate the sharing of said data. At least they plugged the hole once it was pointed out to them.