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Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

Ironing?

Are we going to see the same comment on every article about privacy?

If you are writing about the importance of privacy, you might consider what you are doing about it yourself if you want to be taken seriously.

It is 2020, setting up a website that doesn't send off the data of your trusting visitors to third parties should be totally standard. Yet not even people advocating for privacy can get this done.

BTW. one benefit of not collecting and tracking is that you won't have to show that silly cookie banner.

Oh I'm well aware and I wish I didn't have to show the banner. If you know an alternative with which I could build that website, that doesn't force me to use cookies on users, I'm all ears

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This is awfully dismissive. Not everyone with technical skills in one domain or another are capable of building a website from scratch, and that's perfectly fine.

Yeah that's a great theorical piece of advice. But here's the thing. In 2020 if you don't wanna self-host your website and have a resilient and flexible website, you don't have other options than squarespace/wix and other platforms using cookies.

Sure you do. Those may be the easiest ones, but they are not the only options. There is probably a discoverability problem though. It's not great if the best way to learn about the other options is through HN comments...

Your "standard" user without any git or HTML/CSS/JS or command line knowledge hasn't a lot of options imho. Obviously, self-hosting with https://sitejs.org/ or something similar would be ideal but when you don't have a dev/IT background and you're looking for a way to host a blog there isn't a plethora of viable and easy-to-use solutions, especially if you don't want to use a service provided by Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc... I did the research a few months ago and maybe I missed some options though? If you have resources I'm interested!

There are options like GitHub pages (mentioned here) where you write in markdown. But I agree that this is not a priority of the market.

I use Squarespace and you can configure it to disable any tracking and not have to show a consent banner. Not sure about Wix.

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