[jamiequint]

I'm fine with people being patronizing towards whiny, entitled users who think they have a right to use any website they want on their terms.

If you don't like someone running log analysis on their traffic then don't go to their website, nobody forced you to.

[nathan_long]

This example of tracking is tiny and harmless. But there's a wide spectrum of tracking behavior from sites.

> whiny, entitled users who think they have a right to use any website they want on their terms

Users do have a right to use any website they want to on their own terms. If I make an HTTP GET to your site, it's up to you to decide what HTML to return. Once you do, it's up to me whether to request the images, scripts, etc, and whether to read the sidebar, etc.

It's up to you to decide whether to show me any content of substance without first collecting payment. I can't demand that you publish content for free. I'm not entitled to that.

But it's up to me to decide what I consume. You can't demand that I view ads, send back tracking cookies, etc. You're not entitled to that.

If you don't like site visitors refusing to be tracked, then don't let them view your website. Nobody forced you to.

[jononor]

How exactly does one know which websites will do this and which wont, before going to the website?

[haney]

I’d make the assumption that any client/server connection has some sort of logging mechanism? I don’t think browser fingerprinting and large scale cross site tracking is good but it seems a hard to take issue with being counted when visiting someone else’s website.

[jamiequint]

How do you know what businesses have cameras to count visitors before going into the business?

[lkiernan]

How do I know what physical trackers are being used before entering a physical location? I use my eyes.

Business often count foot fall with IR or laser; it's generally on the door. How do I know that using a businesses with cameras claiming to only count traffic are not actually gathering a whole lot more information to use/sell/change their mind later?

I have no skin in this game but the original comment was more focused on "we've decided to bypass your adblocker because we feel that our interests outweigh yours"

[xfer]

Noone puts up cameras to count the visitors. They put them to monitor their activity.

[SahAssar]

Actually some people do, and a lot of people use their existing surveillance cameras for people-counting. see for example https://www.axis.com/en-us/products/axis-people-counter

[krupan]

I'd you are that concerned use a proxy, VPN, Tor, etc.