On: You don't need analytics on your blog

[crtasm]

This to me is intrusive and creepy. Glad I can block Hotjar easily and do not wish to have to check for self-hosted scripts doing it.

[satvikpendem → crtasm]

Not sure you can block self hosted Hotjar type scripts if I just embed them into the JS bundle itself for the site. You could try disabling JS but most people won't, and I could also disallow text being rendered if there's no JS. Not that I would do any of this of course, since I like no JS sites as well as SEO for my blog posts, but it's a hypothetical of what one could potentially do.

[crtasm → satvikpendem]

Blocking XHR requests by default would probably be a good start before 1st party JS. I already default to blocking 3rd party content.

[satvikpendem → crtasm]

That's true, depends on the kind of blog though, and whether it's a SPA or not.