HTTPS Everywhere (Firefox) is blocking this. I get the "third party cookies blocked" message. When I disabled HTTPS Everywhere, it worked.
and how many did you get?
Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies
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#12Note that the opt-out option provided only opts out of tracking-based advertising, not of browser tracking.
To avoid tracking by ad companies use uBlock, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, etc.
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#13Gives me some confidence in uBlock & Privacy Badger... The first time I ran it there was 1 site tracking me (adbrain).. I adjusted my PB settings accordingly and got 0. It's a useful site for calibrating those tools! http://i.imgur.com/hdReODM.png
If you're going to the trouble of running Privacy Badger and uBlock, I would have to recommend going the further step and getting Self-Destructing Cookies.
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#14Between Privacy Badger, Self-Destructing Cookies, and AdBlock Pro (and a browser cache which wipes itself on close), a grand total of zero trackers. Woo woo!
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#15Three sites were tracking me apparently, and that's with uBlock Origin active. But I opted out of them regardless.
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#16Kind of a misleading headline. Look through the list of third-party cookies in your browser if you want to see who is tracking you. This is a list of ad companies who have agreed to offer an option not to track you.
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#17HTTPS Everywhere (Firefox) is blocking this. I get the "third party cookies blocked" message. When I disabled HTTPS Everywhere, it worked.
and how many did you get?
I had nine. On another computer, I had eight (less Yahoo).
Both computers have uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and the built-in Firefox tracking protection.
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#18I think you can estimate how many companies are tracking you by noticing how many things that you had to disable to get this page to work.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the 126 is all companies participating in the program, not necessarily the ones that are actively tracking your browser. The second tab contains the companies tracking you. Luckily I only had 9 and was able to opt-out of all of them.
technically yeah - but a lot of amongst the 126 were showing a status of "No status available" (or something along those lines). 126 seems like quite a low number for it to be the TOTAL number of participating companies - I could be wrong though..
Are you running an ad blocker? It seems to interfere with the status checks, since it blocks all traffic to the networks in question.
Try temporarily disabling your ad blocker and trying again.
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#20Kind of a misleading headline. Look through the list of third-party cookies in your browser if you want to see who is tracking you. This is a list of ad companies who have agreed to offer an option not to track you.
I'd imagine users of cookie trackers might also try to track you through other means.