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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by leobelle on Sunday March 09, 2014 @01:18AM (#7367683)
Ghostery blocks w3counter so it blocked pretty much everything on the actual site, maybe use a static domain that isn't blocked by ghostery. :O
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by dangrossman on Sunday March 09, 2014 @01:20AM (#7367685)
You're running Ghostery for the purpose of blocking W3Counter and every other site like it. You can't really do that then lament the fact that it worked. I'm not going to invest time and effort into evading you; if you want to see web stats sites, you can just turn off the extension. Somehow I don't think there are any Ghostery users looking to sign up.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by leobelle on Sunday March 09, 2014 @01:31AM (#7367703)
I meant you should use a different domain for static content on your marketing page, and I'm not lamenting anything. Just giving you some advice. Ghostery has been installed over 1 million times just in Chrome. Any one has ghostery installed and is going to your site will see a completely broken webpage.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by chill1 on Sunday March 09, 2014 @04:46AM (#7367915)
Why was leobelle being downvoted? I can understand disagreeing with what they were saying. It's an opinion after all. But, what they were saying wasn't that far off base..
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by stedaniels on Sunday March 09, 2014 @04:56AM (#7367931)
Maybe if Ghostery was developed in a half way decent manner it wouldn't have a bad history of breaking sites and would block tracking more intelligently rather than blanket blocks of domains.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by djt on Sunday March 09, 2014 @07:28AM (#7368167)
Probably because the adverts that are blocked pay for the site. Kind of like asking musicians for zippy share links to their music.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by dangrossman on Sunday March 09, 2014 @03:25PM (#7369573)
Ghostery isn't an ad blocker, it's an analytics blocker. It's for people that don't want to be tracked on the web.