On a Clear Day

I received this email about a month ago:

After the discovery of the html verification inherent in Firefox it occurred to me to get busy on this.

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/09/i-learned-something-useful-today.html 

In early 2021 I added Microsoft Clarity tracking to the site, it was supposed to offer insights into how customers use the site - I was never that impressed with the monthly reports.  To be fair the same can be said of the Google reports.

I added the following Clarity code to 35 pages on WB9KZY.com:

            <!-- Clarity tracking code for http://wb9kzy.com/ -->
            <script>
                (function(c,l,a,r,i,t,y){
                    c[a]=c[a]||function(){(c[a].q=c[a].q||[]).push(arguments)};
                    t=l.createElement(r);t.async=1;t.src="https://www.clarity.ms/tag/"+i;
                    y=l.getElementsByTagName(r)[0];y.parentNode.insertBefore(t,y);
                })(window, document, "clarity", "script", "56v2734jxp");
            </script>

But now per that email I have to add some other junk to allow people to opt out.  Since I'm having to do 35 edits anyway it'll be easier just to get rid of Microsoft Clarity.  BTW I tried to get into the Microsoft Clarity site and it wouldn't let me - probably yet another site that hates VPNs.

I haven't done anything yet but may have inadvertently already started because any updates I did since 2021 have probably NOT had the Clarity stuff since I forgot that I had sequestered the Clarity containing web files locally - possibly why Clarity never reported on stuff that well.

So in a way the email from Microsoft is a good thing, reminding me that I was part of the tracking problem.  Privacy Badger has been telling me this all along:

I just wasn't paying attention.

Update, afternoon: I tried using Privacy Badger (a plug-in for Firefox) on the various pages on WB9KZY.COM.  I only found two that Privacy Badger flagged, one was an errant Paypal mention on the projects page.  The other was a Microsoft Clarity invocation on the base page, index.htm.  So it wasn't a big deal after all :)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm