Oh, absolutely - sorry if I implied that, I sensed the suggestion of it in the parent comment and clumsily followed on from your response to that part.
I completely agree with making sure things work as much as possible and look OK when stuff like that is blocked and even when JS is disabled.
Analytics can be useful and ads are a necessary evil for the prevalent web business model. Tracking is, ugh, I guess in theory acceptable with informed consent - though I've tested a couple of those "consent frameworks" that popped up after GDPR etc and even ignoring the dark UI patterns let's just say they didn't stand up well to scrutiny regarding doing what they say they do.
> I sensed the suggestion of it in the parent comment and clumsily followed on from your response to that part.
Nah it wasn't my intention to give that kind of impression[0]. I was just trying to add to the part I quoted from your comment (also the keywords from my first comment (not the one with the quote) were "barely" and "reluctantly").
It's not that I think it's okay, but I probably should have used the word "tolerate"[1] instead of "accept".
So basically I agree with you. I wouldn't work on something like GFW[2], or ad[3]/gambling/porn/blockchain/dating companies, or "VPN" services (in the diluted sense of the word), or Discord, or smart TVs, or software for IoT, stuff like that.
But I also know that if I want to get a remote job, I'll have to compromise somewhere.
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[0]: Mic and cam recordings can be trivially circumvented by anyone who knows how to turn on a computer, for example, but even if I have permission/access to them, I won't touch those things unless it's to do something the end user wants to do.
[1]: There's probably a word that better captures the nuance tho. English is not my first language.
[2]: Or anything from countries who don't even try to appear like they follow the GDPR.
[3]: Where the ads are the product/service being sold. Or in other words, if a company uses adsense it's a maybe-work-for-them-but-try-to-find-something-else; if the company is adsense, it's a straight no.
Yeah... I'm in the US, mostly having worked on local sites, so hadn't had to deal with that. At most, the tracking I've added is Google Analytics, but have also used other types of tracking in bursts to get usage flows, or ui heat maps on what is moused over/to, etc.
I completely agree with making sure things work as much as possible and look OK when stuff like that is blocked and even when JS is disabled.
Analytics can be useful and ads are a necessary evil for the prevalent web business model. Tracking is, ugh, I guess in theory acceptable with informed consent - though I've tested a couple of those "consent frameworks" that popped up after GDPR etc and even ignoring the dark UI patterns let's just say they didn't stand up well to scrutiny regarding doing what they say they do.