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Post by picturefreak on May 2, 2018 22:52:38 GMT -5
It seems like to load the CSS for gbo.freeforums.net, you'll need to enable cookies for storage.freeforums.net.
If the server is blocked, you will not get the stylesheet and things will look quite plain...
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Post by CampKohler (Sacramento CA) on May 11, 2018 23:49:50 GMT -5
What is this privacy addon of which you speak?
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Post by picturefreak on May 12, 2018 16:36:22 GMT -5
Privacy Badger, from the EFF
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Post by Hemond on May 13, 2018 7:02:57 GMT -5
Just installed Privacy Badger. To see how it behaves. I've also got ABP and Ghostery running so
I'm curious to see what goes on while those 2 are actively blocking. I'll visit some of the disreputable webs like
LinkedIn /Facebook/Google to see how it deals with their 3rd party cookies. Especially the notorious Facebook
widget.(that one give me headaches).
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Post by CampKohler (Sacramento CA) on May 14, 2018 12:22:17 GMT -5
Without me bothering to do any research, can you tell us in a few words what benefits this addon gives when using this forum?
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Post by picturefreak on May 14, 2018 19:32:50 GMT -5
None whatsoever, other than the fact that having to disable it manually for any particular site one uses is annoying. Normally it tries to automatically and smartly block sites that try to invade privacy.
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Post by Hemond on May 14, 2018 21:52:47 GMT -5
Badger measures the setting of cookies by 3rd parties. This is different from blocking ads like ABPlus does and different from
blocking elements like the Facebook widget as Ghostery does. It is similar to Firefox's built in 3rd party tracker, and does the
same thing. If you use a clone of Chrome, or Chrome itself, then Badger duplicates what is built into FF.
On the 3 results below for this GBO page you are looking at, notice the 3 different results of blocking. ABP blocks 4 (actually 6, take my word for it).
Badger finds 5, but doesn't block as they are well behaved trackers - they follow accepted rules, no 3rd party cookies. Notice the green checks.
Ghostery lists 2, an ad tracker, and a privacy snoop - Google, and gives the option to block them.
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Post by CampKohler (Sacramento CA) on May 17, 2018 0:36:57 GMT -5
Thank goodness we are all safe when badgers and beavers and the ever-vigilant stoat insulate us from the brunt of wicked and wiley commercialism.
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Post by Hemond on May 17, 2018 15:38:05 GMT -5
Safety is certainly an issue. But putting safety aside, ( to discuss later if you choose), how about simple economics and convenience?
Look at the image of ABPlus. Notice that 761,000 ads have been blocked on that computer since the ABP extension was installed. That is
3/4 of a million ads blocked. Let that sink in. 3/4 of a million.
That is how many ad referrals would have been served if not blocked. Doesn't that strike you as mind blowing? Many of them would have been
served on the cell phone. (Google extensions like ABPlus are cross platform) Meaning paid for by data allotments. Serious money. And completely wasted.
Not to forget the amount of time wasted while 3/4 of a million ads were downloaded and displayed. An equally mind blowing amount of time
is wasted in thumb twiddling while waiting for pages filled with ads to load. There are extensions that measure page load times. I ought to
paste up some screen shots of just how much time it takes to load a page with, lets say, 50 ad referrals.
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Post by CampKohler (Sacramento CA) on May 25, 2018 2:24:40 GMT -5
One must remember that ads pay the bills for us.
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Post by picturefreak on May 25, 2018 13:50:49 GMT -5
I've made my mind that ads are OK...
... as long as they don't track!
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