Targeted tracking of e-book and audiobook users by content providers

I would like to see this kind of web site “virus” banned. Google (and others) have managed to get their tentacles into thousands of web sites, so that it is impossible to use those thousands of unrelated web sites without interacting with Surveillance Capitalism (or, conversely, if you PiHole too aggressively, the web site just stops working). The ban might as well start with government and quasi-government web sites, since that is on more solid legal and political and commercial ground.

Fun quote from the link in the OP:

Library privacy became national news in 2005 when George Christian, then executive director of Library Connection, a Connecticut library consortium, received a National Security Letter (NSL) from the FBI. The Feds, under the US Patriot Act, demanded library patron information without a warrant and imposed a lifetime gag order that forbade disclosure of the NSL.

Christian and three colleagues, who became known as the Connecticut Four, refused to comply and a district court eventually found the gag order unconstitutional, prompting the government to drop its demand. In 2007, the Patriot Act’s gag order provision was struck down in Doe v. Gonzales.

That by itself supports the contention that libraries do care about “patrons’ privacy and civil liberties” (in the US). Props to the Connecticut Four.

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