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Not to mention the website wanted to drop a cookie too.

I block cookies by default, and only allow manually selected sites to set them. Even then, the default for allowed is only until end of browser session.

So unless the cookie was something like "irony=true", it should not have been there. (I didn't bother to look what value it tried to set.)

I was lazy to right a script to parse my server logs!

But common, we are not using GoogleAnalytics :)

If you preach against tracking, the first rule is: do not track. do not store logs at all.

There is a huge difference between anonymous visitor statistics to measure various metrics of performance, and tracking unique digital footprints.

Unless you're trying to demonstrate why. It doesn't seem to be the case here, but you could probably get the point across better if you simply showed people how much information you could gather about them.

IPs are annon, and I respect DoNotTrack from browsers. I think it is quiete fair!