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I block most tracking services. I wish I didn't have to do that. I'd love if sites could get accurate analytics, as long as the data stays with the website owne
by dictum 13y ago
I block most tracking services. I wish I didn't have to do that. I'd love if sites could get accurate analytics, as long as the data stays with the website owners (so, nothing from external companies and no pinging Google etc.), isn't shared with third parties (no, not even "trusted" third parties), retention times are not longer than 2 years, it's reasonably anonymized, etc.
Until a trustworthy self-hosted analytics script that's fast and doesn't consume too many resources appears, my browser/OS and other info will remain underrepresented in websites' analytics dashboards.
- tomrod 13y agoWhat is your method to block things?
- wtallis 13y agoNoScript takes care of most tracking systems (those loaded from third-party domains), and has surrogate scripts to prevent it from breaking websites that attempt to depend on the most common tracking scripts, and for this it is the first line of defense. AdBlock I use mostly for most common forms of single-pixel tracking images (and ads, of course), and Cookie Monster to manage cookie permissions, and BetterPrivacy to get rid of flash cookies. RequestPolicy is the nuclear option for when I'm feeling most paranoid. (EDIT: RequestPolicy's 1.0 betas have a default-allow mode, which makes it much easier to leave enabled during everyday use.) For me, the toughest thing is to figure out which cloudfront subdomains to allow.