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Re:How to disappear from the internet by brodsky on Sunday May 20, 2018 @12:37AM (#17111254)
most of those i suspected or was aware of, but the last two (sourcemaps, websockets) are bone-chilling. I'd like to know more.

also, in your opinion, how effective is Ghostery against this vermin?

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Re:How to disappear from the internet by dylz on Sunday May 20, 2018 @03:13AM (#17111621)
Not very as far as I can tell.

I use EasyPrivacy + uBlock with a huge amount of wildcard rules - rules that did not work well with ABP (before uBlock came along; ABP would choke and cause 10 second load times).

People are basically being employed to arms-race any defenses, so you get that kind of development speed.

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Re:How to disappear from the internet by TheCapeGreek on Monday May 21, 2018 @03:30AM (#17116755)
Keep in mind Ghostery was bought out by an ad agency. Use alternatives like Privacy Badger (or others, I'm not too clued up on the main players in that plugin space right now).
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