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I don't trust anyone to respect my Do Not Track settings. Rather what I do is to blackhole the analytics servers with my /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 www.googlean
by MichaelCrawford 12y ago
I don't trust anyone to respect my Do Not Track settings.
Rather what I do is to blackhole the analytics servers with my /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 www.googleanalytics.com
127.0.0.1 www.heapanalytics.com
Unfortunately one must jailbreak mobile devices to get at their hosts files. I understand that Windows no longer uses it at all.
Better would be to block the analytics services at the router, or preload a caching DNS server with them.
I also avoid "Log In With Facebook" &c. I don't register at a site unless it offers its own login facility.
- Methusalah 12y agoWindows still uses the hosts file in windows 8. I did a little looking around and it looks like Windows Defender automatically removes some hosts from the file.
- MichaelCrawford 12y agoThanks for looking into it. I have Windows but don't use it a whole lot. Strictly speaking DNS is a protocol and not an API. Applications aren't required to perform name lookups by using any particular software, it's just common to use what the OS supplies.