Wow, yeah, fuck off with the dickovers.

My own blog has none of that crap. No Google analytics, no tracking. If someone visits my site, I have no idea. And I don't care.

I'm not a big fan of Gruber for all the Apple apologism, but I love this.

We need to define the things we hate. Give them words. Use the words as weapons.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently with "watermarks" of the statistical and non-visible kind used to track image creators. (Google embedding "this image is AI but also here's the user ID".)

I've been thinking that practice needs a new word too. It's not watermarking, it's signals-math based tracking, so maybe sigtracked.

That might not sound gross enough though.