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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by clarkevans on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:11AM (#15072560)
> Don't collect URLs, but only top-level+1 domains (e.g. images.google.com)

Do you consider images.google.com to be eTLD+1? The eTLD would be .com; so, eTLD+1 would be google.com; and hence, images.google.com would be eTLD+2?

eTLD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by kannanvijayan on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:41AM (#15072839)
Yeah, you're right. Thanks for the correction. It's eTLD+1, I just erroneously used images.google.com as an example.
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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by BenjiWiebe on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:26AM (#15072699)
This is clearly an example of the infamous off-by-one error.
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