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Funny, but Privacy Badger blocked 10 trackers in this article
by rand0mthought 9y ago
Funny, but Privacy Badger blocked 10 trackers in this article
- igravious 9y agoFTA: “What you may not realize, though, is 76 percent of websites now contain hidden Google trackers, and 24 percent have hidden Facebook trackers, according to the Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project. The next highest is Twitter with 12 percent.” Article postscript: “Commentary by Gabriel Weinberg, CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo, which makes online privacy tools, including an alternative search engine to Google. Follow him on Twitter @yegg . For more insight from CNBC contributors, follow @CNBCopinion on Twitter.” Kind of set off my irony detector!
- zevv 9y agoMy ghostery blocked 24
- PuffinBlue 9y agoublock didn't block anything. Then I realised that this site allows auto-playing videos so at some point in the past I seem to have disabled JavaScript on this site. I wish it was easier to control JavaScript usage as the visitor. It's either very complex or just 'turn it all off and go somewhere else if nothing works'. Perhaps the second option is the 'correct' response though.
- morganvachon 9y agoIf you're using Firefox and you want to keep JavaScript enabled but stop auto-playing videos, you can go into about:config and set media.autoplay.enabled to false. I'm not sure if other browsers have a similar switch, but this works in any current version of Firefox. It only affects HTML5 video containers; Flash and Silverlight video containers may still auto-play.
- Slansitartop 9y agoI do this, but also be prepared for video you expect to play to no work as expected. For instance, a video might appear to be frozen or "loading" until you click on it.
- IncRnd 9y agoublock origin stopped 25.
- ISL 9y ago29 here. Thanks, PB.
- darkinvisible 9y agoGhostery: 25 uBlock Origin: 62