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> ...the inalienable right to privacy.

Yes, you have a right not to visit any website you don't want to.



If all websites declared all privacy violations up-front, that might be a viable solution.


Turn off cookies and JavaScript.


>Turn off cookies and JavaScript.

In your first comment, you seemed to be against altering the presentation of websites; you offer a binary choice: go to the site, or do not, based solely on the content. Seemingly advocating that sites should be accepted or rejected whole-cloth with no modification. Yet here, you seem to be just fine with blocking Javascript and cookies, despite the fact that both these technologies are often used as part of ad services to generate revenue.

So which is it?


I'm not against altering the presentation of websites at all; I use Ghostery myself (plus Greasemonkey etc.). I just think it's dishonest to pretend that this has anything to do with rights violations.


No, silly, they want all of the content and functionality that they developers worked so hard for, they just don't want the developers to be compensated for it.




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