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It would depend on the site if most users use chrome. Also, you have to ask what kind of damage can be done in the future if the data is collected .

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That's what I'm asking. What kind of damage are you talking about exactly? I understand privacy concerns for medical, porn, political, gender rights websites. But a comics one?

This is a comic from a French author. Remember, the authors of a satirical comic in France were killed for their drawings only a few years back.

Charlie Hedbo, http://m.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883

I don't know if some present or future government could be offended by people reading this comic but it shouldn't be a question we even need to ask. If you want to live in a world where surveillance is not the default then the very least you can do is remove the tracking from your own websites.

Thus I applaud the author of this website. And I'm really bored of the dullards who chip away at my freedom saying "but it's only a tiny transgression, what does it matter?"

> if some present or future government could be offended by people reading this comic

That makes zero sense. Sorry, not buying that argument.

I'm talking about this particular comic, not some political manifesto.

You haven't addressed the actual point. Which was that we shouldn't need to think about whether any particular comic is or is not of interest to people carrying out surveillance.

Categorizing people based on what they read comes to mind .

Ok, so you categorized the people by whether they read this comic or not. What's the damage?

You've been categorized based on what you read.

The damage is that it contributes to normalizing this behavior in general.

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