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Written in Rust is nice, but it also uses `libssh` which has a history of security issues and bad support for recent ciphers. Would be interesting if it also has issues with termin…

The problem is not what the site owner is able to see, but what Google sees. And it collects information about every site you visit, every article you read. It has access to all ot…

I hope you realize, that "opt-out" doesn't work without tracking the user either. Which kinda reduces the point of not wanting to be tracked to absurdity.

It is. And it is a huge problem. It's easier to block this using an adblocking plugin, though.

Opt out is the problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572181

The point is, opt-out is the problem.

This sounds like the EU proposal for cookies :) The article was targeting another scenario: An installed app that tracks users. Obviously, for websites this would rather translate …