• Ad tool is 'worse than Superfish'
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31586610#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/url]
People use something other than AdBlock?
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;47200846]uBlock all the way, but even so these barely protect against clever website tracking Also this is just ridiculous "Hey get rid of these websites' stream of revenue and instead give *US* that ad revenue!"[/QUOTE] Good thing Ghostery fucking obliterates web trackers. I find it funny that shitty news/blog sites like Gawker-based ones usually have 30-something trackers in them.
[QUOTE=U.S.S.R;47201857]Good thing Ghostery fucking obliterates web trackers. I find it funny that shitty news/blog sites like Gawker-based ones usually have 30-something trackers in them.[/QUOTE] Most mainstream news has about 50 distinct ones or so. It's completely ridiculous. (For comparison: Facepunch only uses Google Analytics, but that iframe above bumps that to 9 distinct trackers.)
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