Sometimes I forget how bad the web most people see actually is. It doesn’t look too bad from my perspective. But I’ve got *uBlock Origin*, *Privacy Badger*, *Decentraleyes*, *HTTPS Everywhere*, and *HTTPS by default* installed on my browser.
This long essay on the web reminded me of the outside, Against a User Hostile Web by Parimal Satyal: «the page is 3.1 MB in size, makes about 460 HTTP requests of which 430 are third-party requests (outside of its parent domain) […]. It also stores 100 cookies […] and contacts 118 third-parties. And if all this weren’t enough, your connection […] and the majority of third-party connections are over unsecure HTTP protocol […]. Essentially, this means that about 94% of the data being transferred and 99% of the requests being made have nothing to do with the article itself. […] Using an ad/content-blocker isn’t cheating the system; it’s taking very basic precautions […]. If you run a website and you put official share buttons on your website, use intrusive analytics platforms, serve ads through a third-party ad network or use pervasive cookies to share and sell data on your users, you’re contributing to a user-hostile web.»
Don’t contribute to a user-hostile web.
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