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> [...] send Ghostery into the abyss [...]. I want the web to work like it’s intended to 99% of the time and I know how to control my privacy the remaining 1% of the time. You don’t need a plugin for that.

I want to control my privacy 99% of the time, and unfortunately I can't seem to do it without plugins. yes, it's a pity that me protecting my privacy kills your website. yes, I'd rather all these measures weren't necessary, but we're at a point where I simply don't trust any third party, disqus included.

if all this screws your revenue, please use ad-providers that don't track me. there aren't any ? well shucks, looks like I won't visit your website anymore then.

(really, I wouldn't mind ads on a website, if that didn't also mean I'm tracked everywhere. as it is now, I block almost everything, using ghostery and/or disconnect, adblock(plus) and noscript. and I have no qualms about it).

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I can only agree, but it goes farther still. I do not(!) have Ghostery, but I kill external requests by default (Plugin == RequestPolicy) and I block scripts by default (== NoScript).

There are 8 foreign domains, that this site sends requests to. One or two seem to be a CDN, one is creativecommons.

BUT:

I do not accuse anyone but myself for making this experience of visiting this site a horrible one. As I do not want any foreign, plugged in web-servers, to know, that I visited site a or b, I have to live with these kind of experiences.

And I love RequestPolicy for the Job it does, enabling me to exclusively control, who gets to know, I visited site a or b.

Sorry ajax.google, webfonts, disqus, addthis and so on.

I mostly agree with you but I do blame the webmasters.

Every piece of third party content reduces the quality of the experience, even assuming it works 100% correctly. I have never visited a site to check out its third party content; it's rare that third party content has remotely enhanced my experience.

Including third party content which tracks people across the web without any concept of consent (here I am referring to Disqus) is unethical.

Some third party content is fine by me. But why this tracking insanity?

If someone talks about some great tutorial on YouTube, I love it, if they embed the video. OK, I would certainly block it non the less, but I could jump to the vid if I wanted.

If they wanted statistics, they could use some OpenSource tools like Piwik.

> There are 8 foreign domains, that this site sends requests to. One or two seem to be a CDN, one is creativecommons.

I'm constantly amazed by the number of other domains that I see websites referencing. If there are really 8, then I don't think this site falls under 'simple websites' anymore.

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