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Comment by _tom_ | Hacker News Reader

I dislike sites, like phys.org, that don't have a proper "opt out" from tracking.

I encourage people to not visit them.

I just right-click and open them in a private window, and accept all cookies. They can sell a new visitor, and I get to read the content.

Note that you are not just accepting cookies, but _tracking_ overall.

I'm aware of that. I used to dedicate a Firefox container to these sites so they can track between themselves, but that's basically private browsing with extra steps. Private browsing, an ad blocker, and a cookie manager for when I want to scrub a site/container is the best compromise I can find right now.

I care for my privacy, but the pressure of spyware is everywhere, at multiple levels, and the effort required to counter it completely is excessively asymmetrical.

You might consider the fanboy annoyance list which blocks the cookie dialog: https://fanboy.co.nz/

Practically I'm not really sure what this does in terms of actual tracking but personally it's the dialog that annoys me more.

Yeah directly against this site's guidelines I can't click on links anymore because they are so rapey. They want me to consent to anything in exchange for reading for 30 seconds? Do they have any idea what that word means?

Like going to do pagerank with consent cookies, filter anything with a consent cookie, and anything that links to anything with a consent cookie, see what's left.

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