Comment on Class-action complaint against Kissmetrics and others for use of Flash LSO [pdf]Comments−ck215yThis could backfire massively if the court says "no problem".Better Privacy and Ghostery plugins are your friends, turn off local storage in about:config -> dom.storage.enabledEtags is rather clever though, not sure how to ignore those.added: also remember to turn off third-party cookies in Firefox (it's there but buried in Chrome)Note to developers: please never, ever, rely on third-party cookies!−nikcub15ysolution to Etags is to block all third-party requests by default, and let the user selectively allow for each site they use.Working on a plugin to do that now:http://github.com/nikcub/parley(a bit inactive only because I haven't committed to gh since initial commit, but I will be in the next few days)the last-modified header can also be used to track - it accepts anything. I described it in a comment on the last thread:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825564−pornel15yBetter solution to Etag and cache-based tracking in general would be to change browser cache from: cache[url] = data to cache[(url,origin)] = data (origin is roughly the domain of the referrer)This way you don't need to block all 3rd party requests and caching will still work reasonably well for each site.−ordinary15yFor Firefox there's RequestPolicy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...RequestPolicy is an extension that improves the privacy and security of your browsing by giving you control over when cross-site requests are allowed by webpages you visit.
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This could backfire massively if the court says "no problem".
Better Privacy and Ghostery plugins are your friends, turn off local storage in about:config -> dom.storage.enabled
Etags is rather clever though, not sure how to ignore those.
added: also remember to turn off third-party cookies in Firefox (it's there but buried in Chrome)
Note to developers: please never, ever, rely on third-party cookies!
solution to Etags is to block all third-party requests by default, and let the user selectively allow for each site they use.
Working on a plugin to do that now:
http://github.com/nikcub/parley
(a bit inactive only because I haven't committed to gh since initial commit, but I will be in the next few days)
the last-modified header can also be used to track - it accepts anything. I described it in a comment on the last thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825564
Better solution to Etag and cache-based tracking in general would be to change browser cache from:
to (origin is roughly the domain of the referrer)This way you don't need to block all 3rd party requests and caching will still work reasonably well for each site.
For Firefox there's RequestPolicy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...
RequestPolicy is an extension that improves the privacy and security of your browsing by giving you control over when cross-site requests are allowed by webpages you visit.