security in firefox4

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu May 19 13:38:01 UTC 2011


> Going back to my first example, simply blocking doubleclick.com cookies
> wouldn't be enough to stop them tracking you.  The mere loading of their
> graphics has counted you, and put your IP into their database to track
> for the rest of your browsing session.  You need to stop loading their
> graphics, in the first place.

Likewise google's analysis stuff

The internet works better in my experience when www.google-analytics.com
(and ssl.google-analytics.com) get blocked at firewall level or stuck
in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1



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