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Would Ghostery be successful at blocking this? http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/
by thematt 15y ago
Would Ghostery be successful at blocking this?
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- william42 15y agoI'm pretty sure this is exactly what Ghostery and the like block.
- JonnieCache 15y agoYep. It blocks the Like buttons and other stupid widgets, which is how the cookies get sent. That also has the pleasant side-effect of drastically decreasing load times. I highly recommend it. Be aware that it does block disqus by default, I usually whitelist that one.
- Periodic 15y agoI had a few problems with the blocking when actually going to the sites in question. I believe I had to unblock Google Plus, Google Analytics and Facebook when actually visiting those sites. However, I'm happy that most of the time it prevents the annoying features of a page from loading.
- JonnieCache 15y agoI've never had that problem. That'd be a pretty big flaw in ghostery if that was the case.
- cpeterso 15y agoI've had problems with Ghostery blocking cookies and web bugs that prevent some Flash videos on YouTube, Hulu, and the New York Times from playing.
- brador 15y agoWould using noScript with firefox work?
- sequoia 15y agoYes. Ghostery is much more targeted however, it blocks scripts based on a blacklist (of trackers) rather than blocking ALL scripts. Ghostery is much more user/non-techie friendly; the only time you need to mess with it is: a) You want to allow some service (I allow disqus, for example): disable blocking for the service b) A site requires facebook/twitter to log in, or you trust the site: whitelist the site (allows all tracking scripts) I do wish it had a "allow by domain" so I could allow e.g. just facebook on just turntable.fm so I can log in, but not allow all of ttfn's other trackers. Works fine on abc.com ;) http://screencast.com/t/01D8EF6AH5ij http://screencast.com/t/01D8EF6AH5ij