"My feeling is that I deserve control over the programs I run, whether on my
computer or not."
You aren't running them if they aren't on the computer you are using. If you
give someone a request or submit data, you are still not running a program on
their computer.
"You are right that it is the case that many websites try to run code (beside
html...and you can see that source, if you consider it code)."
That contradicts what you said in another post. Are you changing your view
points for the sake of argument?
"I try not to use run any of the so called "web 2.0" shit."
Then you shouldn't be on this website. If you don't want to run web 2.0 then
you idealy wouldn't be contributing to the internet at all.
"No java, I mostly disable all javascript, cookies, flash. You're right
though, I cannot control 100%."
And you shouldn't be able to.