I despise Google, Facebook et al and I develop a webpage in my freetime for a club that I'm in. I'll gladly work an extra hour, if it means I can avoid sending data to one of those asshat companies, but it's really not as easy as it sounds.

I for example used a template to base my webpage on and that template creator chose a font, as he should, but then instead of statically embedding the font file, the guy included it by linking to Google Fonts, meaning that all of my users' browsers sent their IP and that they are visiting my webpage (as part of the HTTP Referrer) off to Google.

I found out by looking at my page with NoScript and I suppose, you could find out by looking at the network requests, too, but neither are necessarily something that a hobby webdev is going to look at.

Another time, a module decided to load JQuery off of a Google server. And incidentally, that module was installed by the guy who maintained the webpage before me, so that's another point how "everyone doing it" does actually make it harder on you.

Then we wanted to embed a map. I happened to know of OpenStreetMap, but most webdevs probably don't, because everyone's using Google Maps everywhere.

For videos, I was convinced to embed YouTube-videos, because of networking effects and such, so then I wanted to at least try to make it privacy-friendly and, you know, comply with EU law, so I put up a picture, if you clicked on that picture, it would then load in the actual YouTube player.

I was hoping to find a module that did this automatically. I found one. Exactly one, that is. And it was kind of shitty at that. So, then I had to spend not just one extra hour, but probably rather five, to try to patch that module up into a semi-usable something.