> Also, educate me: does "virtually any website" do tracking?
Yes. All web hosting comes with web stats as part of the standard service. Web servers come with logging enabled by default. To have a website with no tracking of its traffic, you'd have to build your own server/instance, and edit the web server software configuration to disable the logging.
Third-party tracking like Google Analytics also has more than 50% penetration on the top 100K websites. More sites than not are not only tracking you themselves, but sending every visit to third parties.
I thought tracking wasn't logging ("we remember what you look at") per se, but "we remember where you are whenever you use our stuff", but I agree, the difference isn't that larg for desktop use, given that most web servers log IP addresses.
I also reread the web site, and couldn't find a privacy statement. I think there should be one, and hope the product will come with one.
Yes. All web hosting comes with web stats as part of the standard service. Web servers come with logging enabled by default. To have a website with no tracking of its traffic, you'd have to build your own server/instance, and edit the web server software configuration to disable the logging.
Third-party tracking like Google Analytics also has more than 50% penetration on the top 100K websites. More sites than not are not only tracking you themselves, but sending every visit to third parties.