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I don't understand. You are complaining that this blocks third party tracking right? This is what it is meant to do.
by JupiterMoon 11y ago
I don't understand. You are complaining that this blocks third party tracking right? This is what it is meant to do.
- StavrosK 11y agoGoogle Analytics uses first-party cookies, though, not third-party.
- throwaway2048 11y agothat's meerly a technical detail. It fundamentally represents cross site tracking harvested by google.
- StavrosK 11y agoHow is it cross-site if the cookie is first-party?
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- kuschku 11y agoSomething can be third-party, but not cross-site. Google Analytics is one of those.
- StavrosK 11y agoA third party cookie has a specific meaning. Google Analytics issues first party cookies.
- michaelt 11y agoNobody has mentioned third party cookies except you. Google analytics loads scripts from and sends results to Google. Those requests inevitably include IP address and referrer. That's more than enough.
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- JupiterMoon 11y agoThe issue that many of us are worried about is being tracked across the entire internet by a single entity who's site some of us don't even visit (definition of third party there). We don't care if this is done by what you call first party cookies, or what your call third party cookies, or measuring our mouse movements, or finger printing our browser, or just by watching us through our webcams/sending someone to our house to take notes we don't want it period. And we will block whatever means we can that these entities use to track us.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI said nothing about cookies. I said "third-party tracking". If I don't visit google's website and if they are tracking me on someone else's website then they are a third party. And I will block them if I can.