Links instead of JavaScript
In a world of social networks it has become almost necessary to include links, buttons or widgets on your page in order to help people to share what they just found with their friends and followers.
Most social network sites offer code snippets that you just include in your website for your visitors to use. The problem is that all these code snippets are wonderful tracking devices since they are loaded from the respective social network server. And you don’t even have to use the sharing tool in order to be tracked.
This is a practice I do not want to support. So I removed the Twitter share button from my site and replaced this functionality by the share_post plugin, which creates old school URLs to social network sites (just see above). This is an easy way to spare users the tracking by social networks. And it’s easily customizable to the list of social networks you prefer.
Update: I posted a link to this article on google+ and received a quick reply by a friend who pointed out, that the style sheet used on this page includes fonts from google, and that this is also a way of tracking.
Now I wonder if I can still use these fonts if I download them and serve them from the same server that also serves this page? Heck, I just try it.
