The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking services
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#2I just tried opening the Guardian site and Ghostery reports only 4 trackers. One of which is Facebook.
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#3Another axe to grind against a publication that doesn't like one individual that runs the twitter feed. Of course it isn't pointed out for anyone else.
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#4Yep... I understand that they aren't doing it for the primary purpose of "surveillance" or "tracking" -- the primary intention is advertising and analytics, of course -- but I do feel this sort of thing is hypocritical.
Hell, my blog has Google Analytics and such on it and so I feel like I'm a hypocritic since I use uBlock Origin (with quite restrictive settings). I do intend to remove the analytics/trackers at some point (actually, I plan to move to a completely static site and "redo" the whole thing -- I haven't even turned on HTTPS yet!), but I've been neglecting the site for years so there's a lot of work to do and, TBH, it really isn't very high on my priority list.
I agree with the general premise of this tweet, though. If you're going to call out others for doing something (i.e. tracking users), you should first make sure that you aren't doing it the same thing. At the least, don't be a part of the very thing that you're bitching about.
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#5Another axe to grind against a publication that doesn't like one individual that runs the twitter feed. Of course it isn't pointed out for anyone else.
That would be a great website to set up.
"How many trackers" and report on media sites.
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#6Another axe to grind against a publication that doesn't like one individual that runs the twitter feed. Of course it isn't pointed out for anyone else.
That would be a great website to set up. "How many trackers" and report on media sites.
Definitely agree. I'm not defending a clusterbomb of advertisement trackers but its disingenuous to call out only one.
I feel ashamed I once respected them/him as an outlet of truth but in reality serves only to push a single person's agenda.
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#7What do you guys think of this solution? I've considered it in the past but never tried it. https://matomo.org/
This way you get data analytics without dispensing user data to third parties.
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#8According to my Ublock Origin, NoScript, Privacy Badger, and Cookie AutoDelete plugins, it's doing no such thing.
Re: The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking services
#9Yep... I understand that they aren't doing it for the primary purpose of "surveillance" or "tracking" -- the primary intention is advertising and analytics, of course -- but I do feel this sort of thing is hypocritical. Hell, my blog has Google Analytics and such on it and so I feel like I'm a hypocritic since I use uBlock Origin (with quite restrictive settings). I do intend to remove the analytics/trackers at some…
Self-hosted Piwik isn't an option?
Re: The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking services
#10According to my Ublock Origin, NoScript, Privacy Badger, and Cookie AutoDelete plugins, it's doing no such thing.
It's about time browsers started including UBlock Origin by default. Mozilla anyway, I can't see google doing it any time soon.