This seems to be a growing problem, even among so-called 'privacy advocates.' The last time I checked, EFF's Privacy Badger extension was designed around having

This seems to be a growing problem, even among so-called 'privacy advocates.' The last time I checked, EFF's Privacy Badger extension was designed around having no qualms about making exactly these types of bad trade-offs on users' behalf. The cost of your privacy--even in the eyes of the EFF--sometimes is worth little more than reliably serving a font or a copy of jQuery and claiming to respect 'Do Not Track'.