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Re:Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock by mjolk on Monday August 26, 2013 @06:41AM (#6276177)
I'm not sure that I qualify as 'sane,' but I do it to block tracking/breadcrumb JS. I don't want to pay extra cash for a flight because airlines know that I've been looking extensively over the last few hours.
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Re:Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock by jonknee on Monday August 26, 2013 @07:28AM (#6276340)
You can also just use an Incognito tab (or similar in your browser). AdBlock alone may not be enough to keep you out of tracking for comparison shopping.
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Re:Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock by mjolk on Monday August 26, 2013 @10:51AM (#6277388)
It's close enough to a solved problem and I want the web history. My machine fingerprint is hugely generic -- Chrome on OSX with a couple plugins coming from NYC. Advertisers/jerks could use the visited link color hack with first-party/same-origin JS, but nothing's perfect.
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