People need to stop promoting Ghostery. It's made by Evidon, yet another tracking company. Just checkout their website and it's clearly obvious that everyone that installs this extension is doing them a huge favor:
https://www.ghosteryenterprise.com/
It's identical to the adware companies that promise to help remove adware from your computer... but for some reason people keep using it!
Slightly off-topic but something with my Iceweasel/FF install (v31) borks the layout of the blog completely -- content is shifted far to the right of the viewport for some reason. Looked fine on another computer, so not sure what's up. Also works fine in chromium. FYI.
Can you summarize for us how to avoid this kind of tracking? Is there much we can do besides Ghostery?
I block tracking at the domain level via a custom hosts file: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Actually, I went one step further than this, I dump that hosts file into dnsmasq and set that as my primary domain controller for the home network. So anything connected via WiFi or ethernet (phones, tablets, laptops, etc) will also have tracking blocked.
On the other hand, add-ons like Ghostery work much better.
[1] https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index...
[2] https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/the_w...