Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Surveillance

Re:Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Sur... by chimeracoder on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:22PM (#13405032)

> But you can't avoid google analytics..

That's the easiest to avoid. Ghostery, or a simple edit to your /etc/hosts file.

The problem is that tracking is much more pervasive, and there are many more ways you can be tracked that are much harder to block than Google Analytics.

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Re:Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Sur... by smokeyj on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:32PM (#13405116)

What about for iOS? Sure there's more pervasive methods, but I doubt any are as ubiquitous as GA. My ghostery plugin shows GA for nearly every website I visit.

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Re:Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Sur... by detaro on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:57PM (#13405278)

I thought iOS browsers' adblockers can at least do domain-based blocking, which is enough for the typcial GA case?

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Re:Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Sur... by Fnoord on Sunday January 15, 2017 @01:13PM (#13405391)

There are adblockers for iOS, but not for old versions of iOS and I think 32 bit versions of iOS don't work with it. IIRC Apple has allowed it since 9.0.

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Re:Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Sur... by cmdrfred on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:55PM (#13405259)

Adblock works on Android.

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