Should I block cookies and web-analytics?

Should I block cookies and web-analytics?

Yes

Why? Are the companies involved using the information for nefarious ends?

Yes, cookies are a non-minimal bloated botnet

Yes.
Just whitelist the websites that you want to remember you.

Are there any (significant) disadvantages to turning them off?

Analytics, yes
Cookies depends on whether you trust the website and has an actual use.
e.g. remembering settings etc.

Your preferences from some websites won't be remembered

No, just permanently enable private browsing and restart your browser each day

What harm do you think can come from allowing analytics?

Genuinely curious.

is there a way to disable that atrocious cookie notification?

Block third party cookies in your browser to have 85% privacy with 100% convenience.

No, they enhance browsing experience.

To a great enough degree?

Google Analytics is on pretty much every website.
Not blocking them would make it even easier to be followed (based on browser fingerprint). Whether they actually do follow you or not through analytics remains the question, but I like to think they do.

Same goes for other analytic services

Do they use the information for nefarious purposes?

What's the best software for blocking analytics?

Anyone?

Sure, why not?
At least it will save some space in you RAM and internet traffic

install self destrucing cookies. it'll kill all cookies except for those of domains that you explicitly whitelist.

>2005+ ELEVEN years
>thinking you can disable cookies
>thinking you can disable javascript
>thinking you can access ANY information without running uncheck code on your computer

LOL look at this faggot

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