> the 300 tracking scripts every site has to try to squeeze as much revenue as possible

Just the other day I was appalled by a new record, 1604.

I'm increasingly of the opinion this stuff needs to just be banned outright by law. None of the businesses I've talked to seem to be aware of how dishonest it looks to say "we value your privacy" while trying to get users to agree to get more companies than there were pupils in my secondary school to analyse them.

EU has laws that give back control to users.

But for this to be effective, the browser should be cooperating and working on the user’s behalf to limit tracking. (You know, the whole reason why WWW calls it “user agent” — it should be on the user’s side.)

Unfortunately >90% of browsers use an engine made by the greatest beneficiary of user tracking. Hundreds of billions in future profits might be endangered by giving users actual control. The proverbial fox guarding the hen house.

Where do these 1600 trackers even come from? Does every text writer add their own in the CMS? Is it not managed centrally? Or does every web component load their own flavour?

I didn’t even know there were 1600 different distinct trackers around.