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I wonder if I was the only amused by the OP's use of Quantcast for tracking on that page, as well as allowing other 3rd parties like WordPress, Twitter, and IntenseDebate to track users as well.

The point is well and good, but those in glass houses should be careful when throwing stones.

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Part of the problem is that it so many of the tools available have tracking embedded in them. The mozilla guy who posted about how this came to be hit on it - they used a service for email that tracked by default and made it difficult, if not impossible, to disable the tracking.

This situation is the inevitable result of an industry that is built on advertising dollars. All of the tools are designed with that in mind and they crowd out tools that don't support that business model.

(OP here). I am amused myself.

I have cut out Google Analytics include from my blog code after I wrote the post. Now I see that I will have to switch off IntenseDebate comments as well.

Thanks for pointing out!

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