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I can only agree, but it goes farther still. I do not(!) have Ghostery, but I kill external requests by default (Plugin == RequestPolicy) and I block scripts by

I can only agree, but it goes farther still. I do not(!) have Ghostery, but I kill external requests by default (Plugin == RequestPolicy) and I block scripts by default (== NoScript). There are 8 foreign domains, that this site sends requests to. One or two seem to be a CDN, one is creativecommons. BUT: I do not accuse anyone but myself for making this experience of visiting this site a horrible one. As I do not want any foreign, plugged in web-servers, to know, that I visited site a or b, I have to live with these kind of experiences. And I love RequestPolicy for the Job it does, enabling me to exclusively control, who gets to know, I visited site a or b. Sorry ajax.google, webfonts, disqus, addthis and so on.

ronaldx 13y ago
I mostly agree with you but I do blame the webmasters. Every piece of third party content reduces the quality of the experience, even assuming it works 100% correctly. I have never visited a site to check out its third party content; it's rare that third party content has remotely enhanced my experience. Including third party content which tracks people across the web without any concept of consent (here I am referring to Disqus) is unethical.
- sdoering 13y ago
  Some third party content is fine by me. But why this tracking insanity? If someone talks about some great tutorial on YouTube, I love it, if they embed the video. OK, I would certainly block it non the less, but I could jump to the vid if I wanted. If they wanted statistics, they could use some OpenSource tools like Piwik.
cytzol 13y ago
> There are 8 foreign domains, that this site sends requests to. One or two seem to be a CDN, one is creativecommons. I'm constantly amazed by the number of other domains that I see websites referencing. If there are really 8, then I don't think this site falls under 'simple websites' anymore.

ronaldx 13y ago

I mostly agree with you but I do blame the webmasters. Every piece of third party content reduces the quality of the experience, even assuming it works 100% correctly. I have never visited a site to check out its third party content; it's rare that third party content has remotely enhanced my experience. Including third party content which tracks people across the web without any concept of consent (here I am referring to Disqus) is unethical.

sdoering 13y ago
Some third party content is fine by me. But why this tracking insanity? If someone talks about some great tutorial on YouTube, I love it, if they embed the video. OK, I would certainly block it non the less, but I could jump to the vid if I wanted. If they wanted statistics, they could use some OpenSource tools like Piwik.

cytzol 13y ago

> There are 8 foreign domains, that this site sends requests to. One or two seem to be a CDN, one is creativecommons. I'm constantly amazed by the number of other domains that I see websites referencing. If there are really 8, then I don't think this site falls under 'simple websites' anymore.