Binning web advertisers and trackers

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:00:53PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote
> The recent release of Mozilla's Collusion plug-in for Firefox has
> inspired me to go after web advertisers and trackers.  I already use
> both AdBlock Plus and NoScript, and yet after a couple days of
> browsing Collusion is showing sites like imrworldwide, 2o7.net,
> quantserve, and scorecardresearch tracking my movement on the web.
> This is because there are several sites on which I have to enable
> JavaScript to get reasonable functionality - Slashdot comes to mind
> (and yes, they do use trackers).

  Try the "Ghostery" plugin for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

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