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Re:I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me by nerdponx on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:36AM (#20776852)
uBlock Origin and uBlock Matrix can both enforce it. But you won't be able to read the news or check the weather.
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Re:I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me by buckminster on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:16PM (#20779084)
I block all Javascript, cookies and third party sites by default. I still get news and weather. Even nytimes.com works.
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Re:I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me by cik on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:01AM (#20777038)
That's why you use AdNauseum instead. I read news, check the weather, and generally live my life. Combine it with ExplodingCookies and life is better than it was.
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Re:I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me by nerdponx on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:37AM (#20777435)
In my understanding, it's trivially easy to identify and filter out those fake clicks.

Also I don't want to screw with advertisers' perception of who I am. If anything, I really like how ads are actually relevant to me -- it's a lot better than the days of penis pill banners. I just want them to stop following me around so closely and putting my "anonymized" data at risk of exfiltration by hackers or governments.

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