"In order to regain freedom and control over the digital aspects of our lives"
Nothing proves his point more than:
<script src="//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js...Nothing proves his point more than:
<script src="//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js..."Al Gore claims he's an environmentalist, yet he flies using his personal gas guzzling plane."
And yeah, it's an ad hominem. "Is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument"
You can most definitely use centralized servers to disseminate decentralization. I'm pretty sure https://ipfs.io started as a github project and on a monolithic server backed by cloudflare. That doesn't dismiss them in the least - considering they now heavily dogfood.
Yes, I track how popular what content is on my site. Motivates me to write more. Please feel free to block trackers; I do that as well.
I don't care if people run Analytics, its just when they go sharing all that data with a third party that it gets troubling.
You can talk about it all you want, but as long as you continue to participate in the very thing you rail against, you're going to struggle to be taken seriously.
A) know how the sausage is made, and
B) stand to actually lose something if people believe them, i.e. they are standing by their point in spite of the negative consequences to themselves.
People on the dole who argue against (details / implementation of) social security should be taken seriously. Rich people arguing against tax breaks for the wealthy. Programmers against big tech firms. Etc.
Hmm.
> "But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"
Because users would riot, and would use browsers or plugins that suppressed these notifications.