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Is anyone else not seeing a bunch of the companies' logos? It looks like I get an HTTP header redirect to a 1x1 PNG: http://i.imgur.com/NFjIedl.png http://i.im

Is anyone else not seeing a bunch of the companies' logos? It looks like I get an HTTP header redirect to a 1x1 PNG: http://i.imgur.com/NFjIedl.png http://i.imgur.com/NFjIedl.png http://i.imgur.com/yRwP4q1.png http://i.imgur.com/yRwP4q1.png It can't be a transparent proxy interfering because it's an HTTPS connection...

mkal_tsr 12y ago
Chances are you have an extension/plugin to block social media scripts or the like. They're missing on my Chrome browser (Privacy Badger, Ghostery, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, etc) but the vanilla Safari (no plugins) shows them fine.
- thisisparker 12y ago
  This is correct. I uploaded the images and used names like facebook.png, which sometimes produces false positives on those extensions. I can confirm they're being served from eff.org and are not doing any tracking.
  - sarciszewski 12y ago
    Excellent.
par0xyzm 12y ago
This is ironic: The EFF's report about privacy protections offered by companies is published on a page with tracking beacons from websites with well-deserved terrible privacy reputations.
- nacs 12y ago
  I'm using Ghostery and I'm not seeing any off-site tracking beacons on the eff.org page (they have a locally hosted PiWik analytics install but that's it).
- schoen 12y ago
  If you look upthread, you can see these are probably false positives due to the image names of the corporate logos (see the note from 'thisisparker). The EFF site tries to be very careful about embeds and not serve scripts or images from third-party sites. For example, YouTube embeds there use youtube-nocookie.com with a click-to-load wrapper so that users have to affirmatively choose to interact with the YouTube servers. That's described at https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedded-video https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedde...

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Is anyone else not seeing a bunch of the companies' logos? It looks like I get an HTTP header redirect to a 1x1 PNG: http://i.imgur.com/NFjIedl.png http://i.im

by brianpgordon 12y ago

mkal_tsr 12y ago
Chances are you have an extension/plugin to block social media scripts or the like. They're missing on my Chrome browser (Privacy Badger, Ghostery, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, etc) but the vanilla Safari (no plugins) shows them fine.
- thisisparker 12y ago
  This is correct. I uploaded the images and used names like facebook.png, which sometimes produces false positives on those extensions. I can confirm they're being served from eff.org and are not doing any tracking.
  - sarciszewski 12y ago
    Excellent.
par0xyzm 12y ago
This is ironic: The EFF's report about privacy protections offered by companies is published on a page with tracking beacons from websites with well-deserved terrible privacy reputations.
- nacs 12y ago
  I'm using Ghostery and I'm not seeing any off-site tracking beacons on the eff.org page (they have a locally hosted PiWik analytics install but that's it).
- schoen 12y ago
  If you look upthread, you can see these are probably false positives due to the image names of the corporate logos (see the note from 'thisisparker). The EFF site tries to be very careful about embeds and not serve scripts or images from third-party sites. For example, YouTube embeds there use youtube-nocookie.com with a click-to-load wrapper so that users have to affirmatively choose to interact with the YouTube servers. That's described at https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedded-video https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedde...