Re:The Fantasy of Opting Out
by eadmund on Friday November 01, 2019 @05:12AM
(#21417206)
Sure, but all this tracking isn't a product of JS tripwires pwning computers: it's a natural result of downloading an article from a server.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
No, it's a result of the article telling the browser to also download and execute analytics scripts. It's abusing the good faith HTTP protocol was built upon. That's why I consider ad/content blockers OK and desirable. They're a way for users to express that they don't consent to loading and execution of some resources.