Binning web advertisers and trackers

[Giles Orr]

On 23 March 2012 22:33, Anthony Verevkin <anthony-P5WJPa9AKEcsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> >    Try the "Ghostery" plugin for Firefox
>> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/
>
> I was looking for a long time for the ultimate plugin and I found it
> for myself. But first I tried to describe what I wanted and then I just
> found a plugin which did that - it is RequestPolicy. What it does is
> it's stopping the page from loading the content from other domains.
> Any content.
>
> Cause the way tracking works is - you enter the site with legit content
> and it gives you a cookie. And you are good with it, cause it's a part
> of your interaction with this site. But then the site is telling you -
> go check a banner (or even just a one dot picture) from my partners.
> And your browser goes for it (to google-analytics, etc). And then it
> interacts with that Ad site and accepts a cookie from it (and at this
> point it's already not a cross-domain cookie as you requested some
> content from that site). But the whole thing with getting content from
> another site which is not the site you were requesting is no good.
>
> Yes, the plugin breaks some things, but you then set the exclusions on
> the SiteA-to-SiteB basis. Works for me.

This is almost exactly what I was looking for, looks great.  Thanks
Anthony - I've installed it.

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