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I really don't understand why a personal website would want to share my data with that many advertising companies...

Trying to earn their $0.14/mo in advertising revenue.

Through all of our technical advancement, hosting is still expensive, okay? /s

People act like we couldn't afford to host things in the 90s before Moore's law ran for decades. Suggesting we wouldn't have blogs/websites if not for advertising

I remember the old Internet

My guess would be the person running the website has used one simple 3rd party include that then loads all of the other things so that they might not actually be aware of what's being done under the hood. Or, they are a sociopath. But not being able to come up with reasons is not a good look.

Interesting, that’s exactly the same number as Outlook https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441710

Sorry about that. It's a wordpress website on the official wordpress.com hosting, it's actually wordpress that is doing all this tracking out-of-the-box.

I will check if there are options to reduce that.

Agreed, it's like being hugged by 766 pairs of strong but gentle arms.