All of this is an easy fix: disable css. In the same way that "I don't want to be tracked by javascript" can easily be resolved by disabling javascript. I'm not seriously suggesting everyone does that, but anyone who is so paranoid that they don't want a site knowing that they're reading its content might want to consider it.
Honest question: how much of this is left? What popular sites are still accessible this way? HN might be the only site I visit frequently where browsing with no js/css has any hope of working.
I get that some people have low tolerances for things not being perfect. CNN stories without JS usually have a pile of empty images at the top, for instance. But that is probably fixable; I just haven't bothered to figure out which bit of JS to allow for that.
Usability depends on your tolerance for imperfections vs. your tolerance for being observed.
[1] Current setup uses JS Blocker 5, uBlock, an aggressive cookie manager and my home proxy, which does a ton of things, many of which I don't even remember at this point.
("anonymously" assuming I'm blocking their cookies, which I would if I were that paranoid)
What I hate, is the fact that I go to agoda, I search for hotels in jiufen in taiwan, I look at only 2, I book one of the 2, I close it. Open up Facebook on my phone seconds later and have adverts saying: hey how about these 2 hotels in jiufen.
That shit annoys me. Stop following me and tracking what I’m doing and sharing it with all these companies. It makes me want to not use the internet...
Note that cookies are mostly a convenience vis-a-vis tracking. For user tracking, there's nothing really stopping the server from vending you a version of their site with custom CSS that loads images with a fingerprint in the URL, which would still work with cookies disabled. That'll get you coherent signal on a session (gluing different sessions together would be a bit more challenging, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible).