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Story time : A couple of years ago, i got a message from Mozilla about a survey/competition for Indian users to find websites which had the most number of trac
by mozball 4y ago
Story time :
A couple of years ago, i got a message from Mozilla about a survey/competition for Indian users to find websites which had the most number of trackers. The top winners would get a coupon worth a couple of bucks.
I immediately embarked on my search with safeties off - Noscript, Ublock, disabled
I surfed through various Indian websites - times of india, yellow journalism websites, local language tabloids, desi xxx sites - I expanded my search globally- dailymail, cnet, piratebay - my cpu fans whining in protest as i trawled through the darkest, most malware-infested, crypto-miner-laden, chumbox-ridden corners of the web. The average number of trackers was now in the triple digits but still i felt i could do better. That i had seen worse. Suddenly,it clicked. I could almost feel time stop and spacetime warp around me as my dsl connection struggled to load up tomshardware.com. Ding Ding, My quest had ended by a healthy margin.
So thanks for the coffee, tomshardware.com