firefox, trackers and ghostery

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 11:00 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> pages. Now I've found something that makes a noticeable difference: the 
> addon "ghostery" that blocks "trackers,"
> [...]
> For example, the intro 
> page for cnn.com includes 10 such unwanted visitors with names like 
> "Audience Science," "Dynamic Science," and "Scorecard Research." 
> Fascinating stuff!

I've been on pages with *dozens*, yes, plural; 24 and more of these
trackers on a single page. There is a direct inverse correlation, as far
as I can see, between the number of trackers and the quality of the page
- the more trackers, the worse the site. It is a very rare site that has
none, and of course Google Analytics gets counted. I block that too.

BTW if you install Ghostery be aware that by default it blocks nothing.
Go into the preferences and click everything :-)

Regards, K.

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