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I've always looked for some harder data on how to tell the difference (effectively) from these different tools. Really appreciate the data you're providing her
by mgreg 12y ago
I've always looked for some harder data on how to tell the difference (effectively) from these different tools. Really appreciate the data you're providing here.
My challenge is that I looked at this data and the web page on Github and I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but I'm not certain how to interpret the data and understand the real world implications. On the GitHub page it states that "The most important figure in my opinion with regard to privacy is the 3rd-party Domain count" which is a good hint but if I look at Disconnect 5.17 for example I see 93/94 which is "3rd-party count / total count". What, exactly does that mean? Does that mean for the 15 web sites visited that 93 http requests were from 3rd parties and only 1 from a first party? And that with the specified tool it is blocking those 93 requests?
Thanks for any additional explanation.
- gorhill 12y agoIt's the number of distinct "3rd-party" domain names reached on average for the 15 visited web pages. So in the case of Disconnect, for the 15 URL visited, on average 93 "3rd-party" domains were touched. The web page domain in the URL address bar is deemed 1st-party. "Domain" is extracted as per Mozilla's Public Suffix List.