[m-arnold]

Hugo (static blog generator) is spending non-insignificant efforts to comply: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4616.

It looks like a simple thing like embedding a Youtube video in your blog post is no longer so simple. As well as loading any external JS dependencies.

[blub]

Youtube, disqus, twitter are designed to collect as much info about persons as possible, so yes, it might be difficult to prevent them from doing that.

The fault lies entirely with those companies, which did the wrong thing with impunity until it was literally outlawed.