One could also be a bit more compassionate and just realize that people make mistakes or just don't have every line on their website memorized if they decide one day to just share a YouTube video.

I doubt they are actively trying to trick people into letting down their "adblocker" guard so they can retarget them with advertising...

Compassion has nothing to do with taking something seriously.

I have compassion for their cause. Read 2 articles and was intrigued.

At the same time, spotting such an obvious mistake does make me wonder if their articles have glaring mistakes in them as well.

"Perfect is the enemy of good" really applies here.

Someone is aware of the issue of online tracking and tries their best to get rid of all of these things (web fonts, analytics,...) and even states their intent "No tracking". One day they make a small mistake and don't realize that sharing a YouTube link on their website drops a cookie and immediatelly all the good they are trying to do is forgotten.

I hope you never make mistakes.

This absolutely does not relate at all to me. I don't make extraordinary claims so I am not bound to provide extraordinary evidence. So your "I hope you never make mistakes" is irrelevant or, even worse, arguing in bad faith.

You can spin it any way you like. Claims should be backed and checked, else credibility flies out the window. I don't get how that's not glaringly obvious.

This is indeed how I feel about it, thanks.

You pointing out a minor mistake that has zero implications doesn’t provide any value. It may feel good to you pointing out mistakes others made, but especially in this case it doesn’t matter. It’s not important.

And you seem to read way too much into this mistake, promptly distrusting all the content they ever made or wrote.

Next time you make a mistake, I hope people around you will treat you the same way you treat other people, let’s find out if you like that.

> It may feel good to you pointing out mistakes others made, but especially in this case it doesn’t matter.

It does matter, it is important. Making such a mistake calls into question if they don't have other, more serious, mistakes in their actual articles.

> Next time you make a mistake, I hope people around you will treat you the same way you treat other people, let’s find out if you like that.

I don't make extraordinary claims so I am not bound to provide any extraordinary evidence. They do make an extraordinary claim.

I feel that engaging here is probably a mistake, but screw it.

> I don't make extraordinary claims

That seems like a pretty extraordinary claim to me. That you've made. Twice.

Was that supposed to be an argument? I don't claim I don't do tracking on my website. They do.

> It does matter, it is important. Making such a mistake calls into question if they don't have other, more serious, mistakes in their actual articles.

This shows such black-and-white thinking, thinking in absolutes that doesn't take in account, the context and circumstances.

To me it shows a rigid mind that can't perceive nuance, and think / reason about topics in a particular context.

Minor mistakes are often just that: minor mistakes. If this was an error in a scientific paper or news article, your stance may have had more merit. But that's not the context here at all.

> I don't make extraordinary claims so I am not bound to provide any extraordinary evidence. They do make an extraordinary claim.

A blog claiming not to track you isn't an 'extraordinary claim' by any definition. So that's a mistake on your part, so I can't take anything you say seriously anymore, by your own definition.

It's your right to conclude all that. I gave my take, I was not looking into calling into question. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯