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> to prevent websites from breaking Nope, nothing will break. I am blocking GA in the following ways: NoScript, PrivacyBadger, Windows HOSTS file. I see the th

> to prevent websites from breaking Nope, nothing will break. I am blocking GA in the following ways: NoScript, PrivacyBadger, Windows HOSTS file. I see the thing being called, and nothing gets through, and websites work properly. Edit: the bugzilla article mentions both GA and googletagmanager.com, which (both) I have been successfully blocking in the above ways for many years. I never had any website not working because of those two pieces.

fotta 6y ago
I mean the Bugzilla literally has an example of a website that breaks.
- HenryBemis 6y ago
  /rant Someone built the unsubscribe mechanism in a way so that they FORCE the user to be tracked by GA. That someone is... Xfinity? By Comcast? Hahahaha!! One.Website. So we should yield to those **(profanity)? That one website does not deserve our respect. Comcast: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/comcast-fined-9-1m-consumer-protection-violations-high-profile-washington-state-case/ https://www.geekwire.com/2019/comcast-fined-9-1m-consumer-pr... Edit: "we are scum. We want to ** your privacy any way we can. We just got hit with a multi-million fine, so we will continue. You want to unsubscribe? Sure, be tracked a bit more while at it." /end-rant
postalrat 6y ago
What are you saying? Firefox should stop doing this because no sites have broke for you when blocking the script?
gruez 6y ago
counter-anecdote: I encountered multiple sites that break because of blocked scripts. and this is with ublock origin, which has shims for common analytics scripts: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#url-specific-sanitized-redirect-resources-surrogates https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#url...
kawsper 6y ago
Only anecdotal, and no longer happening: The top menu on https://www.easyjet.com/en/ https://www.easyjet.com/en/ used to break if you disabled Google Analytics, the submenu just wouldn't appear.

fotta 6y ago

I mean the Bugzilla literally has an example of a website that breaks.

HenryBemis 6y ago
/rant Someone built the unsubscribe mechanism in a way so that they FORCE the user to be tracked by GA. That someone is... Xfinity? By Comcast? Hahahaha!! One.Website. So we should yield to those **(profanity)? That one website does not deserve our respect. Comcast: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/comcast-fined-9-1m-consumer-protection-violations-high-profile-washington-state-case/ https://www.geekwire.com/2019/comcast-fined-9-1m-consumer-pr... Edit: "we are scum. We want to ** your privacy any way we can. We just got hit with a multi-million fine, so we will continue. You want to unsubscribe? Sure, be tracked a bit more while at it." /end-rant

postalrat 6y ago

What are you saying? Firefox should stop doing this because no sites have broke for you when blocking the script?

gruez 6y ago

counter-anecdote: I encountered multiple sites that break because of blocked scripts. and this is with ublock origin, which has shims for common analytics scripts: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#url-specific-sanitized-redirect-resources-surrogates https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#url...

kawsper 6y ago

Only anecdotal, and no longer happening: The top menu on https://www.easyjet.com/en/ https://www.easyjet.com/en/ used to break if you disabled Google Analytics, the submenu just wouldn't appear.