[PrivacyBadger] second party web site responsibilities on third party trackers

[Tomas Nordin]

Hi Privacy Badgers

I have a somewhat fuzzy question I guess. I use privacy badger at all
times and I think it's great, thanks for your hard work.

Reading the information on trackers [1], most of the text discuss third
party trackers being bad for privacy and that it ought to be wrong that
companies that you had no intention to visit or request something from
get to track the user.

But I would just like to hear your opinion on the second party web
site's responsibility. I guess that sometimes it is not easy for the web
site I visit to know that trackers sneak in among the services they are
using for their web site. Still, somehow I feel that the third party
tracking opportunity starts with how the second party web site is
designed.

For example, it is not rare that I visit some site that seems to be some
sort of non-profit .org site, seemingly free from ads, yet there is a
long list of trackers blocked by privacy badger. In such a case, what
should I think about the ethics on that site (the site I am visiting).
Is this just happening out of their control, or should I understand that
as if they are selling ads in some sneaky way, as compared to clearly
displaying ads to the user, advertising through tracking?

[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger#faq-What-is-a-third-party-tracker?