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Is there any place where I can find a comprehensive list of countermeasures to stop Google from recording and analyzing all the stuff that the article lists? Ac
by CodeMage 8y ago
Is there any place where I can find a comprehensive list of countermeasures to stop Google from recording and analyzing all the stuff that the article lists? According to the article:
It turns out they record and analyse:
- Your computer’s timezone and time
- Your IP address and rough location
- Your screen size and resolution
- What browser you’re using
- What plugins you’re using
- How long the page took to display
- How many key presses, mouse clicks, and tap/scrolls were made
And ... some other stuff we don’t quite understand.
- pixl97 8y agoTurn off javascript, mostly. To hide your ip you need to use a VPN.
- scrooched_moose 8y agoIs noscript still the best for that? I haven't looked at other options in a long time.
- kevingrahl 8y agoIf you want more granularity I’d suggest giving uMatrix a try. You’ll basically break every site at first and have to make adjustments for every site you visit (whitelist certain Ressourcen on a per domain basis) but I think it’s well worth it. NoScript (which is totally fine) just blocks all JS, uMatrix can block much more.
- shpx 8y agoNoScript lets you whitelist sites. Chrome's built in Javascript blocking is about as usable. Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Content Settings -> Javascript and then change "Allowed" to off. You can white list a domain by clicking on the padlock or the thing that says "Not Secure" in the URL bar on the left and clicking "Site settings" and changing Javascript to Allowed. In my opinion, the only real effect JS blocking has is you start complaining in HN comments about sites not working.
- jammygit 8y agoI found umatrix required me to turn so many things on for the average site that I wasn't sure it was blocking anything significant anymore. I suppose I have up after a while
- kevingrahl 8y agoI can see why you’d feel that way but for me it still blocks a lot of stuff I don’t want. I block some domains/companies via my hosts file and run a pihole but there’s always the odd advertising network etc I, or my pihole didn’t knew about that gets blocked by uMatrix.
- JohnFen 8y ago> NoScript (which is totally fine) just blocks all JS Depends on the version of NoScript. If you stick with the older ones before this was broken, you're good. You can't do that with the new Firefox, though.
- woogley 8y agoPersonally I prefer uMatrix. It has a nice CSS-ish quality to it, e.g. you can whitelist random subdomains like *.cloudfront.net _if_ the root page is a domain you trust already. It's still a pain to get rolling at first but it feels more friendly to me than noscript
- jandrese 8y agouMatrix is a serious pain in the ass with reCapcha however, and for any site that embeds video. Plus it treats every site as unique so you have to redo the green boxes on every site.
- abtinf 8y agoIf you click on the asterisk between the domain name and the on/off button, it switches to global rule mode. Any allows/denies you save will be used across all sites.
- notriddle 8y agouMatrix doesn't correctly work with the `<noscript>` tag, which breaks a lot of sites that attempt to implement progressive enhancement.
- anonu 8y agoTurn off JavaScript... And almost any site you visit will be broken.
- JohnFen 8y agoI use NoScript, and only allow very specific scripts to run. There are sites that won't work without allowing a metric ton of sketchy scripts to run, but those are both a minority and tend to be sites run by major companies -- so I can ignore them without loss.
- jiveturkey 8y agoANY website can record and analyze all this. Not just google. There are only 2 countermeasures available: 1. turn off javascript (effective for all websites) 2. block access to google in your router/firewall. (effective only for google)
- neolefty 8y agoNope, because it's a cat-and-mouse game with robots. It's not in Google's interest to publish it because it would give an advantage to the bot writers.