> Yet another item – "Don’t enable social media sharing by default.". Is the thinking that user's shouldn't be able to share something via social media without first explicitly enabling that option? That just seem unfriendly. Or is the idea that doing so protects someone from doing so accidentally? This seems a lot like the 'cookie law', itself an annoying mandated nagging that probably backfired (because everyone was effectively trained to just do whatever necessary to get rid of the corresponding notification on every site they visited).

Most social media sharing buttons are in fact scripts hosted outside the website currently visited. So even without using them a lot of data is send to Facebook, G+ and other social medias. If you want to see a good implementation of the idea, check Schneier's website: https://www.schneier.com/