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This is just like a highscore game ...

33 Trackers | 60 Third-Party Cookies https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=edition.cnn.com

32 Trackers | 53 Third-Party Cookies https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=wsj.com

The newspaper business is digging it's own grave.

"This website could be monitoring your keystrokes and mouse clicks."

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39 Trackers | 91 Third-Party Cookies | Evading Trackers | (Possible) Keystroke & Mouse Monitoring https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=arstechnica.com

At least Ars will allow you to disable almost all of that if you subscribe. I mean, they've got to pay their staff somehow, and if it's not subscriptions or ads then how?

Maybe it's naive to think that even when showing Ads or collecting usage data, there has to come a point of questionable returns. I struggle with accepting that showing Ads and collecting usage data involves nearly 40 different collectors/trackers.

I do get the allure of cross-channel tracking and personalized Ads but maybe good enough could be reached differently.

I don't categorically reject Ads and data collection but the current data hunger is insatiable with little visible benefit to me.

35 Trackers | 92 Third-Party Cookies https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=publico.es

Absolutely insane.

Do you pay for your news then I assume?

Note that one of their two examples is wsj.com, which only serves news to paying subscribers and still includes large ad banners.

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