On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 10:18 -0700, stan wrote: > I doubt that you are experiencing traditional cookie tracking. Hmm, I reckon they probably still do that. > There are two other ways of tracking that are much more effective: > flash cookies and html5 storage. Since I block Flash, by default, few things should abuse me via that route. I've not kept up to speed with HTML5, though. I'll look into the privacy add-ons you discussed. > > If they exhibit behavior that a tracking site would, it blocks them. > I can no longer read the site forbes.com because it thinks I have > adblocker turned on. I don't, but privacy badger is blocking the ad > trackers that would allow ads, so they don't show up. Yes, I see more and more of that kind of thing (sites that deliberately fail, lock you out, or are utterly scrambled when you block the half dozen CPU-sapping scripts that they run). The trouble is, it's not just odd-ball sites that do that. You find you can't read the news, buy stuff on-line from your shops on-line store, etc. I suspect that's down to idiot-level turn-key webstore services, which simply make use of a lot of external pre-programmed scripts, rather than do it all on the website. Something as benign as shop.abc.net.au (our national television broadcasters online sales), is an example of something that goes right out of kilter when you block all these annoyances. > Never!, I repeat never!, allow the site addthis.com to access your > computer. It uses browser fingerprinting to track your web usage. > NoScript seems to adequately prevent it, and I think privacybadger has > it blocked out of the box. And there's the rub, these days. Now that dial-up is dying off, many users have persistent IPs (not quite static, but most likely to keep on using the same IP). You can't just block something once it's touched you, wipe your cache, and be a new anonymous person on your next session. And thanks to browsers with tabs, or multiple windows that do not act like isolated programs, one session can last a very long time, as you close your window with your bank, but other windows remain open. I wonder if any browsers have a randomiser in them to jiggle the tell-tale signs that browser fingerprinting makes use of? -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
