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> She said she only allowed three trackers on spartapride.org: cookies from Twitter and Facebook that accompany their “like” buttons on the site, and one from Disqus,

There's no need to get tracked just for the like/share buttons. These don't need any JS or third party cookies, just a specially formatted link to the "social" website.

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The site creator was not a web developer at the time she made the website. She was likely following deeply outdated (2014 or earlier) blogger advice about how adding those stupid buttons "create engagement" by making it easier to share the article.

Unfortunately for her and the users of the site, the mere presence of those buttons would be enough for the FB/TW to link their accounts to visiting that website, if they were logged in on the same browser.

spartapride creator here. facebook and twitter are there because of the "see recent facebook posts" and "see recent twitter posts" on the right side of the website.

The 30 other trackers from discus were loaded because of discus. When I setup the site originally my adblock/tracker blocker actually blocked discus so I never saw the other trackers being loaded.. When themarkup pointed it out to me I ended up allowing discus through and saw all the other trackers being loaded.

Thanks to them, I removed discus from my site. :)

I'm not a web developer, the server is running ghost blogging platform with a theme.

Thanks for providing the details. I withdraw my incorrect assumption :).

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