[jastingo]

I fully agree with the sentiment (if not the tone) of this post; namely, consumer tracking across the web has run rampant without much consideration of its long-term cost to both consumer privacy and user experience.

However, I do find the blog post's use of Google Analytics and the Facebook like button both indicates and perpetuates the very problem the OP is posting about. The simplicity and convenience to the content producer of using services like Google Analytics and of offering a means of sharing their content through a platform like Facebook clearly still outweighs any objections, moral or otherwise, to the use of those services/platforms.

[StavrosK]

It turns out that there are easy alternatives to this, and some were posted in this thread (like Shariff). I have replaced all the social buttons with static alternatives, and soon I will be able to remove tracking as well in favor of GoAccess, so it's not as bad as it sounds!

[gub09]

In addition, the blog post uses Google Fonts and jquery from a Google CDN. Could people please consider using a non-Google CDN for things that affect webpage functionality? Those of us that block HTTP requests to Google servers will then also be able to use the website. (In this case the webpage content appears entirely usable even with jquery etc. blocked.)