security in firefox4

[Dotan Cohen]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 16:38, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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
>

Works better in what sense? Faster page load times?


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