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I hope someone from The Atlantic sees this: I will whitelist you for ads but not for trackers. Ads are ok, trackers are the tools of Satan.
by dhimes 9y ago
I hope someone from The Atlantic sees this: I will whitelist you for ads but not for trackers. Ads are ok, trackers are the tools of Satan.
- skybrian 9y agoMaybe use incognito mode?
- ajmurmann 9y agoIf you use Ghostery you can whitelist different "tools" independently. It's very easy to allow all ads and block all trackers. You can also decide to only block certain ads or trackers for specific websites.
- fish_fan 9y agoNot to mention you can pay to get the ads to go away and block anything that remains.
- dhimes 9y agoI've subscribed to the Atlantic dead tree version in the past. I have no problem with that. But their using trackers makes be suspicious that paying won't make the problem go away- only that I won't see it anymore. EDIT: I could clarify: I tried whitelisting the ads and that wasn't good enough. They wanted me to whitelist the trackers too.
- fish_fan 9y agoWell, the ads going away is easily visible. I wouldn't stop blocking though; they most definitely continue to track.
- keithpeter 9y agoI just ude Firefox with javascript turned off (about:config search javascript, toggle javascript.enabled to false). No apparent anything.
- dhimes 9y agoThanks- that's what I do also (but with noscript). I'm just calling their attention to the issue that turning on trackers != turning on ads. And, they shouldn't be using trackers.