The important crux of the problem is that the current model for all “like”/“social” buttons is that simply including the link grossly violates your user’s privacy.
Why should I have to surrender my privacy to read an article on your site? Why do you think that it’s ok?
The only time a your site should be sending tracking information to someone your user’s have not explicitly stated they want you specifically to share is when they have actually interact with the bottom. Not a mouse over, not a resource load, not an invisible overlay.
The use has to consciously opt to do that.
If you can’t ensure that your site isn’t abusing users/readers you need to gate all your pages with a page stating that you will be providing other companies with tracking information that provides your browsing history. You should also list all of the companies you will be sending that data to.
If you don’t want to do that because it will hurt “engagement” or “conversion” that’s your problem.
Alternatively you could have a banner that says “you’ve used our site so we sent information about your browsing history to these companies, and there is no support for deleting that information. We recognize that you may not like that but we don’t care about your privacy, and have no intention to preserve it”
No. A browser is required to load resources whether or not they come from they come from the same domain (otherwise you break all sites using CDNs, multiple servers for load, etc)
The browsers (well Safari at least) actively work to break those things being used for tracking, but fundamentally (and the reason FB, etc require you to embed JS that loads their trackers) tracking companies treat user privacy systems as an adversary and continuously update to defeat it. Look at Google circumventing it in the past (and being hit with fines because of it). Nowadays they’re simply more clever in not crossing legal lines.
"A browser is required to load resources whether or not they come from they come from the same domain "
False. A browser could easily be configured to block or prompt before loading 3rd party content (early versions of IE use to do this). It would be very annoying, but it's possible and that's where we're slowly going with all the cookie/gdpr popups. There's always a tradeoff between security and convenience.
People are trying to legislate what should be a technical solution.
Why should I have to surrender my privacy to read an article on your site? Why do you think that it’s ok?
The only time a your site should be sending tracking information to someone your user’s have not explicitly stated they want you specifically to share is when they have actually interact with the bottom. Not a mouse over, not a resource load, not an invisible overlay.
The use has to consciously opt to do that.
If you can’t ensure that your site isn’t abusing users/readers you need to gate all your pages with a page stating that you will be providing other companies with tracking information that provides your browsing history. You should also list all of the companies you will be sending that data to.
If you don’t want to do that because it will hurt “engagement” or “conversion” that’s your problem.
Alternatively you could have a banner that says “you’ve used our site so we sent information about your browsing history to these companies, and there is no support for deleting that information. We recognize that you may not like that but we don’t care about your privacy, and have no intention to preserve it”