Every now and then it reoccurs to me how wild it is that you can't access the average web page anymore without a thousand parasitical companies trying to mine your data, and we all act as if that's normal.
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@thecasualcritic i think the issue with this framing is it erases the culpability of the website owner
you can’t access a webpage without companies trying to mine your data because the website owner installed those companies into their site and allowed them to do so
we act as if that is normal because we have a (probably misfounded) belief in sovereignty wherein website owners can do whatever they want with their own sites
so this conundrum runs straight through the concept of website ownership
@Lady oh definitely. My "solution" to this is to curate the websites I use. But occasionally I end up searching for something outside my bubble and am reminded of how prolific tracking us.
I'm not sure what the way out is though. Many website owners presumably want to make money or need to recover hosting costs, or may even just be using out of the box tech that comes with tracking included. It seems that options to avoid tracking as a website builder are equally limited.