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Yup. I've used NoScript for years, and one of the most frequently appearing sites that remain blocked is googletagmanager. I totally second the sentiment that
by toss1 5y ago
Yup. I've used NoScript for years, and one of the most frequently appearing sites that remain blocked is googletagmanager.
I totally second the sentiment that this is merely minimal defense against hostile 'service providers'.
This avalanche of tracking libraries is now almost as toxic as email spam in its worst-controlled days. Much of the internet is literally unusable, as pages take dozens of seconds to minutes to load - on a CAD-level laptop that can rotate 30MB models with zero lag.
In fact, does anyone have a blacklist of trackers that we can just blackhole at the HOSTS file or router level? Maybe time to setup a pihole?
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoIn my experience the most popular noscript trackers are googletagmanager and facebook, so with just two domains you can get a lot. But e.g. bloomberg uses full first party proxy for facebook pixel with pseudorandom base url, it's difficult to block even by url; I suspect they duplicate the page request to facebook too, but this is unobservable on client side. Hopefully this solution doesn't scale well.
- troyvit 5y agoThis is my go-to: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts It helps a lot.